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...these distances may affect a reporter was described recently by a newspaperman in Northern Rhodesia. Said he: "It sometimes seems that the home office of every newspaper and news agency is equipped with schoolroom atlases which have maps of Africa neatly squeezed into one page. News editors look at the map, see Accra within six inches of Northern Rhodesia, and send off a breezy query...
...modern education] is too much on how and not why. Before I even took an education course'. . . I was all prepared to enjoy myself teaching the young boys and girls ... to ... raise them to an esthetic level in life, but now I am actually terrified to open a schoolroom window until I have been told in a textbook . . . how high it should be raised, for fear of giving some pupil a complex of some sort . . . JAMES MONAHAN La Salle...
...whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple, a W.C.T.U. member quizzed Joaquin on his inspiration. "Whisky, ma'am," said Joaquin...
Mike is a skinny little boy of six, but he strode confidently into the schoolroom on Chicago's North Shore, past half a hundred adults, and straight to the table up front. With the poise of a veteran performer, Mike perched himself on a stool next to Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, who asked simply: "Well, Mike, how do you feel?" The boy's answer came in a happy flood: "I have an alarm clock and I dress myself and my mommy loves me all the time...
...sudden spurts of violence, had put herself under the protection of Swiss police in the Palace Hotel at Montreux. Meanwhile, his 17-year-old son and heir Hussein, whom Talal had chased in frenzy from a bedroom in Paris two weeks ago, had returned to Britain and his Harrow schoolroom, to go back to his studies and to await the time when he himself might be called to Jordan's throne...