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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schoolroom has a framed copy of the Constitution on the wall. This week New York City's 850,000 children, returning to classes, found something else there-a copy of the San Francisco Charter. For those old enough to understand it, the Charter will also be a text for study. For those too young, School Superintendent John E. Wade hopes the framed Charter will become, like the Constitution, something to look...
Last week some of the mystery was cleared up. Available for the fall opening of schools was the first comprehensive text on the "applied science" of guidance (Techniques of Guidance; Harper, $3.50). Its author, Arthur E. Traxler, is a conscientious Ph.D. who for the past nine years has been associated with the Educational Records Bureau, academic efficiency experts who think every school should get itself a Guidance Officer. His book was brimful of Guidance. By internal evidence, the Guidance Officer seemed to be a half-robot, half-notetaking middleman on the faculty. His impressive task: to make "each individual understand...
...York Times, which prides itself on printing the news (if it's fit and proper) at full length, last week did it again.* It published the entire 130,000 words of the Army & Navy's Pearl Harbor reports. It was quite a job. The Times flew the texts up from Washington, piled up 80 hours of printers' overtime in setting it, tossed out four pages of advertising, dipped into its paper rations to boost its average midweek 155 columns of news to 283 columns, and hit the streets with the full text seven and a half hours...
...Times printed the 55½-column full text of the Versailles Treaty, Einstein's own (and almost universally incomprehensible) explanation of his Field Theories, old and new, in four columns...
...seen by Professor Ulich, the text in its present tentative state has two broad aims. Primarily it seeks to develop appreciation and understanding among diverse cultures for the furtherance of world peace; secondly it will endeavor to make available "to all peoples the world's full body of knowledge and culture...