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Word: schoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Andrew Fleming West, twinkle-eyed creator and dean of the Princeton Graduate Schoo last week closed his academic work. He will be 75 years old next May and has been in ill health for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dean West Resigns | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Harper Junior High School Chicago, there was trouble. The schoo' had been changed from an ordinary eight-grade grammar school to a new type called "junior high" school because it excluded the lower grades. Pupil; belonging in the lower grades were told upon reporting, to go to different "feeder" (lower grade) schools in other parts of the city. They went home instead, told their parents. The parent; stormed Harper, milled about its halls demanded of Principal Harrower reason why their children had to leave the neighborhood to attend school, thus risking their lives in Chicago traffic thus wasting time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Room | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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