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This insufficiency was not a question of scale, but the fact that Journey's End is a study of the English public-school code in wartime rather than of war itself. Its middle-aged schoolmaster Osborne, its eager schoolboy Raleigh respond to duty mindlessly, in a series of conditioned reflexes; they go to their deaths as "correctly" as to a dinner party. Only the chief character, Captain Stanhope (admirably played last week, as ten years ago, by Colin Keith-Johnston), jangled and jittery after three years of war, with horror gnawing away at habit, becomes a creature of conflict...
Married. Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 32, and Elizabeth Marvin, 32. public-school teacher; on the first anniversary of his take-off for Ireland; in San Antonio...
...typical Morgan man has always been one who went to a good preparatory school, graduated from an Eastern university, had influential friends and a high social rating. Of the present twelve partners, ten are university graduates, all are listed in the Social Register. The three new partners are all public-school men; only one went to college; none is in the Social Register; none got his start through influence...
Twenty years ago Progressive Education was a tiny and, in many eyes, a crackpot movement quarantined in a handful of private schools. Today it covers much more territory. Now predominantly a public-school affair. Progressive Education has strongholds in the suburbs of greater New York. Chicago and Los Angeles, is transforming such major public school systems as those of Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Detroit. No U. S. school has completely escaped its influence...
Last week they sent to 1,000 public-school superintendents throughout the U.S. a report, Occupational Adjustment. They proposed that public schools adopt a three-point program to: 1) guide, 2) train, 3) place students in the right jobs. First step, said the superintendents, is to make up-to-date, realistic studies of occupations. In Denver, for example, the schools surveyed the baking industry, found what kinds of workers were employed, how many were likely to be needed, even what nationalities were preferred by employers...