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Rich, suburban Bronxville, N. Y., has one of the most progressive and expensive school systems in the land. From nursery school up, Bronxville youngsters have much their own say about what they study, how they study it. When a subject must be covered, teachers make it so attractive that pupils imagine they are choosing it themselves. In junior high school English, mathematics and the social sciences are required. Elective subjects emphasized are French, German and Latin-all previously offered in grammar school. Senior high school students take, in addition to regular college preparatory work, "creative" courses like art, dramatics, handicraft...
...were many. But Antonia Brico learned determination when she was Wilhelmina Wolthus and washed clothes and scrubbed floors to work her way through the University of California. When she decided to be a conductor she went straight to Karl Muck in Bayreuth, persuaded him to take her for a pupil. When she assembled her woman's orchestra she knew very well that her problem would be to find players for the winds. Finally 25 were recruited, all so earnest that they were oblivious to the fact that women look even funnier than men when blowing...
This article was written for the Crimson by a former pupil of Copey's now a contributor to the New Yorker...
Despite the elaborate precautions which have been taken about every aspect of the Roosevelt visit tonight, Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, is still wrestling with the problem of how to maintain cordial relations between his former pupil and discordant Lowell House bells...
...could be named for him. Mr. Roosevelt wrote a warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank