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...training and to show great promise. Miss Garden selected 51. Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people as Mrs. Charles H. Swift (Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher's quips...
These and some 70 other sticklers must be answered by the boy who would join the Royal Lions Auto Club of Stockbridge, Mich. It exists because a country school near Stockbridge offered no course in automobiles and 13-year-old Pupil Harold Mayer wanted to know all about them. He founded the club three years ago, took it along with him to Stockbridge High School, where it now has 150 members. Beaming on this venture in self-education, high-school officials furnished a schoolroom for weekly meetings, appointed a faculty adviser. Automotive manufacturers send lecturers, catalogs, publicity handouts, occasionally lend...
...mysterious as Leonardo is the manner in which most of his surviving drawings turned up in the possession of the: British kings. Leonardo left most of his notes to his pupil Francesco Melzi. All his life he had worked less on particular jobs than on general problems, on the reason for things, on a vast effort to transpose a closely-observed reality into a dream of possible perfection. Could he have found a serviceable fuel, he might have produced an airplane in the 15th Century. All his life he returned again & again to the study of the flight of birds...
...somewhat different. Bronson Cutting's caste marks-a broad Harvard A (he spoke with a slight lisp), clothes cut on English models, interest in such unprofitable subjects as modern music-did not make him one of them. In 1910 he left Harvard where he had been a favorite pupil of Philosopher George Santayana, who called him "Young Aristotle." He went to New Mexico to die of tuberculosis. Instead of dying he recovered and roamed over the State studying its archeology, making friends with its Spanish-speaking citizens. He already spoke fluent French, German, Italian. From New Mexicans he learned...
...boys ready for Harvard, which opened a year later. Within a year Master Pormort fell into the heresies of Anne Hutchinson, had to be sternly sent away. In 1714 the school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named John Lovell, who had the task of making such ardent young Revolutionists as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, William Hooper and Robert Treat Paine mind their Cicero...