Word: school
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleased and gratified that you chose to picture a classroom in our Clyde L. Lyon School in Glenview, Ill., as a 1949 model...
...student. In college his grades were so poor that his classmates wondered how he ever lasted out four years at the University of Virginia. Among other things he flunked a course in government. But Ed had other attributes. He was an impressively handsome, exuberantly friendly man who taught Sunday school, became president of the campus Y.M.C.A. and believed that all the world was just as well-meaning as well-meaning Ed Stettinius...
Remember 1900. "Suppose," he said, "someone in the year 1900 had predicted that within 50 years the amount of goods consumed per person in the United States would have risen two and one-half times, that nearly four out of five children of high school age would be in high school, that the number of university students would increase four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world...
...Medical services of all kinds will be used far more than today. The proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise ... A nation on a 30-hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts . . . The chance is good that the arts will flourish in the United States as never before in the history of the world...
...Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past, Jefferson Military College had fallen on hard times. Classroom walls were peeling ; desks were worn beyond repair. There were hardly enough students (48) in its high-school classes to keep the place going. Then, a few weeks ago, along came Judge George W. Armstrong...