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...they been in another profession, the actions of Mary Schoenheit, 47, of Centertown, Mo. , and William Cheney, 35, of Eldon, Mo., might not have caused much stir. But Mrs. Schoenheit was formerly a public-school teacher in Illinois, and Cheney now teaches at the Eldon high school. This fall they independently decided to keep their seven-year-old daughters out of school and teach them at home. Reason: both felt that the local public schools are not doing a good enough...
...Stir Until Done. In Columbus, Ohio, released unexpectedly after serving a 30-day jail term for being drunk. Stanley James Van Sky remembered that he still had to serve ten days for contempt of court, got sozzled puzzling about it, took his problem to reporters who checked with police, who jugged him again for drunkenness while matters were being straightened...
...course, getting Jumbo onto the Tufts campus and into the Barnum Museum caused no little stir. The building's stone steps had to be removed and its floor lowered three times before Jumbo gained his final resting place in 1890. By that time the huge elephant had officially become the Tufts' mascot and the college was nicknamed the "Jumbos...
...meet the nation's crucial education problem. For the President has succeeded only in setting other people talking about a problem which had become pressing several years before his election. Not that this talk has been without its uses. The White House Conference on Education did serve to stir the interest of either apathetie or conservative segments of the populace. Certain previously reactionary groups as a result of the conference have suddenly taken an interest in organizing local action to alleviate the critical overcrowding of their schools...
Alfred B. Harbage, professor of English, sharply criticized those "eccentrics" who stir up controversy over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays as being symbolic of the uninformed and unappreciative attitude which exists in this country towards the Bard's work...