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...experimental laboratory of the members of English 47, the course given by Professor George Pierce Baker '87, and was responsible for discovering some of the most outstanding contributors to the American theatre today. From this group have emerged Eugene O'Neill, John Does Passos '16, Robert E. Sherwood '17, H. M. Behrman, the late Sidney Howard, and the late Thomas Wolfe...
This seemed unfair to; Mrs. Evelyn Stafford Brannon, mother of three bright children. Mrs. Brannon, an alumna of Antioch and Columbia and onetime teacher at Chicago's Sherwood School, decided to start a school for bright children...
This week Mrs. Brannon's unusual school, the Sherwood School of Bloomfield Hills, finished its first year $10,000 in the red, but pleased with the accomplishments of its remarkable pupils, aged 2 to 13. Mrs. Brannon had no trouble finding bright children, had less luck finding bright parents. She started with 50 pupils (average I. Q.: 128). She soon weeded out three: a three-year-old because his mother insisted on too frequent brushing of his hair, a five-year-old because his parents spoiled him, a seven-year-old because he was too stupid...
...tots have a rhythm band, paint, wade, swim, take turns eating at a French table (where only French is spoken). Brightest spot in Sherwood School's day is the "conversation hour." Excerpts from a sample kindergarten conversation: "Let's not talk about Hitler today.""No, let's not talk about that awful man." "He's worse than Gulliver."-"Gulliver and Hitler shoot everybody."Last week both boys and girls were busy with war games. For playing too enthusiastically, one little boy was sentenced by his classmates to write 500 times: "It is wrong to hit little...
...gift of $500 to Mrs. Samuel Gompers, 57, disinherited widow of the late, great A. F. of L. leader. Said William Green: "No comment. We have been dealing with that problem for several years." Gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood, veteran of World War I, admitted that he turns over his weekly royalties (about $2,200) from "There Shall Be No Night" for civilian relief in Europe, has given more than $15,000 to war relief since September...