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Johnson searched retirement lists from coast to coast, finally hired ten. As the New School reopened this week, students found the roster a mighty impressive one. Among the new New Schoolmen were courtly Albert Leon Guerard, 69, historian, biographer, critic (Art for Art's Sake), onetime professor of general literature at Stanford; fierce, fiery Thomas Reed Powell, 70, once Harvard Law School's top expert on the U.S. Constitution; genial, snow-haired Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic...
...conference had a forbidding title: the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. But to Denver's Kenneth Oberholtzer and to the other top-level U.S. public schoolmen he represented, the long-winded words meant simply that the professionals were getting together again to talk about the gristle of their jobs. By & large, they were the men & women who were making U.S. public education policy A.D. 1950-with the advice & consent of the U.S. public when they could get it, without it when the public refused to be interested in the problem of education...
...there was substance in that criticism, the remedy lay in good part with U.S. citizens. Few seemed to realize that fact more intimately than the dissenting parents of Denver and the superintendent himself. Said Kenneth Oberholtzer, for himself and for the whole mid-century profession of public schoolmen: "Our schools will be just as good as the citizens of a community want them...
...Schoolmen themselves, says the FORUM. should study new methods of building, heating, lighting and ventilating. Instead of monumental, blocklike buildings, the modern school should be small and informal, neither too forbidding for its pupils to go to, nor too cumbersome for its principal to run. Its rooms should be cheery and colorful as any parlor, as sunny as any porch. All this can be accomplished, says the FORUM, if school boards follow the rules of common sense. Rule No. 1: hire a good architect...
Princeton's Christian Gauss, 69, who started out to be a poet and ended as a famed, judiciously quizzical dean, emerged from retirement last week to wing a few cloth-yard shafts at the target of U.S. education. The onlookers at Princeton-about 75 secondary-schoolmen -had to admit that he hit the target with some smacking bull's-eyes. Said Dean Gauss...