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...figures for 1944-45, President Conant pointed out, reveal that where New Jersey, in using 1.74 percent of its total income for public schools, provided $198 for each pupil, North Carolina, by expending 1.91 percent for the same purpose, raised $68 per child. "On this point, (that sufficient funds are not available)," said President Conant, "stands the present case for Federal...
...light had shone from one of history's great treasure houses, which was a library and a school as well. In the school, the oldest in Christendom, Saint Thomas Aquinas was once a pupil. In the library, which included unique manuscripts of Tacitus, Apuleius and Varro, such Renaissance scholars as Giovanni Boccaccio browsed and pilfered. Adalhard, Charlemagne's cousin, became a monk at Monte Cassino. So did Paul the Deacon, to whom Charlemagne wrote, in a letter, a phrase which epitomizes the abbey: Est nam certa quies fessis venientibus illuc-"For there is certain rest for the weary...
...notes, he says, indicates a lot of work but is no sign that anything has been learned. To absorb knowledge a student must master his economics or history himself and not rely on pages of printed words to do the job, Perry points out whenever he is advising a pupil...
...study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
...state superintendent, the county superintendent, the ex-county superintendent, and a principal from Moline-he used to be a pupil of Miss Lizzie-were all there. (The ladies of the church, worried about the right way to seat them, had written to Emily Post, who straightened them out.) After the pie and Pur Yesterdays, sung by the girls' octet, it was time for "remarks." The state Superintendent, at the peak of his form, called Miss Lizzie "an honored member of an honored profession." Then they gave Miss Lizzie the presents everybody had chipped in to buy: a walnut desk...