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...night distracted men and women tried to identify bodies laid out in New London's Methodist Church and in private homes through the town. So mangled were many of them that they were mistakenly identified. When the number of unidentifiable bodies swelled to 50, fingerprints of Texas schoolchildren taken last year at the Centennial Exposition were hurried from Dallas...
...issue on which Americans will fight. Last week Benito Mussolini did not fail to stand at Derna in respectful, silent tribute at the monument of that onetime Connecticut schoolteacher who led the Marines in their glorious onslaught upon the barbarians of Barbary, a hero whose name many U. S. schoolchildren once knew, Captain William Eaton. Under his leader ship and the Stars & Stripes, the capture of Derna was made by 10 U. S. Marines, 38 Greeks and 400 Arab mercenaries...
Purpose of the I. Q. is to sort out children of exceptional intelligence who are likely to need exceptional educational treatment. Last year some 250,000 U. S. schoolchildren, inmates of juvenile delinquent institutions and miscellaneous persons, had their I. Q.s scored by a revision of the Binet-Simon test, called the Stanford-Binet and published by Dr. Lewis Madison Terman in 1916. Last week Stanford University's spry, 60-year-old Psychologist Terman and his associate, Dr. Maude Amanda Merrill, were guiding through the presses of Houghton Mifflin Co. the first revision ever made in this prime educational...
...question was admitted by Testers Terman and Merrill without being tried out by seven field investigators on some 3,000 schoolchildren scattered over the U. S. To keep the children standard the investigators ruled out schools in tenement neighborhoods, swank suburban academies, the entire pre-school group of children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons...
...headed tactics in handing out tickets for minor traffic violations and for his strict enforcement of the out-of-date Book of Ordinances. When he refuses to case up on the minor offenders, he is transferred to a safety beat which consists of playing nursemaid to a group of schoolchildren crossing streets...