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...academic chairs in the U.S., probably none is more of a hot-seat than the presidency of Teachers College, Columbia University. The mecca of U.S. public schoolmen, T.C. has turned out a fourth of the nation's big-city (over 50,000 population) school superintendents. It lists among its alumni nearly a third of all U.S. deans of education and presidents of teacher-training institutions. As such, it has been more than any other campus the creator of the modern public school...
Last week Chicago schoolmen were working out a plan by which 13 Illinois colleges and universities will offer teacher-training courses at the undergraduate level and thus assure a whole new batch of teachers. But more important than the plan itself was the fact that Chicago had become the latest recruit to what is virtually a nationwide campaign...
...public schoolmen have apparently agreed that the purpose of going to school is "growth"-as John Dewey put it: "The release of capacity from whatever hems it in." Educationally, the results of that doctrine have been somewhat dismal (see above), but esthetically, they have been just the opposite. In the past three years, the nation has put up nearly 14,000 schools. Consciously or not, the best of them fit into the new philosophy perfectly. Both academically and architecturally, the keynote of the new U.S. school is freedom...
...thus automatically became one of the East's most important secondary schoolmen, for Loomis occupies a secure place among the nation's top dozen prep schools. It began in 1912, with $2,170,000 left by five childless members of a wealthy Windsor family named Loomis, who wanted to found a place for students of all races and religions-"that some good may come to posterity from the harvest, poor though it may be, of our lives." Under the first headmaster, Nathaniel Batchelder, the good came quickly. He boosted enrollments from 67 to 320, built...
Bony Body. In 40 years, Fuess (pronounced Fuss, Few-ess, Feis and Foos-but he prefers Fease) came to know some of the nation's top schoolmen, and he soon realized that the "caricature of the pedagogue with . . . his emaciated and bony body, his oversized horn spectacles, and his hairless, shining dome, in no way corresponds to reality...