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Lowndes has conducted this benevolent patriarchalism from his residence at 20 Holyoke Street. Members of the Class of '55, bringing in their General Education themes, were awed by the Professor's wide knowledge of Oriental subjects, his impromptu concern over their respective futures, and his hospitality in trying to spoon them orange juice...
That was 16 years ago. Ever since, young Robert Linsig of Marlboro, N.Y. has lived by grace of his rubber tube. Like other children, he learned to chew his own food, but instead of being able to swallow, he had to spoon it into the tube. Robert never let it get him down. He grew up healthy and active, went to school, scrapped with the other kids, and learned to play the bell-lyra in the Marlboro Central High School band...
...class distinctions and almost exultant snobbery, it chronicles the brief, foredoomed friendship that springs up between little Alexandra Carmichael, whose mother is a marchioness, and little Elspeth McNairn, whose widowed mother makes the marchioness' hats. Mrs. McNairn herself is courted by a workingman who drinks tea with his spoon in his cup; but though his spoon is in the wrong place, his heart is in the right...
...disability bill [TIME, Aug. 27]: "A barefaced grab of public money" is right! Why not put all veterans on pension as soon as they're discharged and spoon-feed them for the rest of their lives...
Does the typical private school turn out weak and selfish citizens? "The independen school, like the public high schools in prosperous suburbs, sometimes deals with students whose chief spiritual staff is a silver spoon and whose main intellectual reliance is a successful ancestor . . . Whether the independent school deals with able, mediocre, or limited students, it undertakes to train all in high standards of academic work and performance . . . One great challenge . . . remains: that of finding a means of imparting to all . . . graduates a lasting motivation...