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...York City published a revolutionary new course of study for its huge public-school system, dedicated to the proposition that mathematics, as taught in school, should have more to do with the price of eggs. So doing, New York followed the example of public schools in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Detroit, Providence, Rochester, many another city...
...this old policy. From 1920 to 1938, the birthrate of half-Catholic, largely urban Massachusetts fell from 23.7 to 13.8. The rate in one-third-Catholic New York City fell from 23.4 to 14.4. Parochial-school enrollment of elementary pupils has slumped on almost exactly the same curve as public-school attendance since 1930-despite increased church pressure to have Catholics send their children to church schools...
...when the British Army ruled that officer-ships, instead of being restricted to graduates of Britain's public (private) and military schools, would thereafter be open also to the ranks. But the British Foreign Service continued to be recruited, as an English wag once put it, from young public-school and Oxford-Cambridge University men of private means possessed of "a knowledge of two or three foreign languages, some familiarity with the graces, and a nodding acquaintance with the muses." Among other guarantees that moneyed wearers of The Old School Tie would dominate the Foreign Service was the fact...
Because Brooks and two other public-school teachers refused to answer the committee's questions (pending a court appeal), Superintendent of Schools Harold G. Campbell last week removed them from their classrooms. This week the Board of Higher Education began trials of 30 municipal college teachers suspended as Communists...
...substitute version of the Ranger's famed cry to his horse: "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" will scarcely be noticed by the nation's moppets. All along, he has represented the Ranger in his few public appearances. In 1933 when Beemer as the Lone Ranger made a personal appearance at Detroit's Belle Isle on the occasion of an annual public-school field day, over 100,000 showed up to see him. When small fry got out of hand in an attempt to get close to him, Beemer the Ranger held them off by rising majestically...