Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 21 I read that Superintendent Wegner [of Roslyn, L. I., whose "progressive" system of education was recently favorably reviewed by the New York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England in the time of Charles Dickens. In Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster, Squeers, gave the verb "weed" to be spelled, defined and conjugated by the class and then sent them out to weed the garden...
...Reynard Corp. his services as a cartoonist for $30,000 a year. Reynard Corp. in turn contracted with the Bell Syndicate to sell the Fox drawings for $1,500 a week, later raised to $2,000. With its profits Reynard Corp. built President Fox a house and studio at Roslyn, L. L, paid his life-insurance premiums. When suspicious Internal Revenue agents learned that Reynard Corp.'s only dividend was $20,000 given to President Fox to invest in Florida real estate, they began an investigation which landed Mr. Fox in the Board of Tax Appeals office...
...reading, arithmetic, language usage and spelling, Roslyn's 900 elementary schoolchildren are slightly below normal, but the reason is not a failure in instruction but the fact that their average intelligence is below par (median I. Q.: 96).* The committee concluded the children were performing up to their ability...
...Roslyn's fourth-grade children ranged from 7 to 16 in age. Now fewer children are retarded. Instead of keeping backward pupils with younger children, Roslyn's schools promote them, give them coaching in their weak subjects...
Homer D. Peabody of San Diego, California and Weld Hall; Gerald D. Roscoe of Dorchester; Alexander C. Stohn of Middleboro and Thayer Hall; William R. Tully of Allston and Weld Hall; David D. Wells of Birmingham, Alabama and Thayer Hall; Joseph P. Willets of Roslyn Heights, New York and Massachusetts Hall; and William B. Witner of Pasadena, California and Lionel Hall...