Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into eight conference rooms at Littauer Center on one of the first days of spring crowded some ten score students. Pads and pencil, which armed every pretty maiden and a few others, who were not so pretty as their painted political ideas, dispelled all conservative fears that a contest of...
> The American people's faith in education as a cure-all is misplaced. Reasons: education is 1) an institutional straitjacket, 2) too slow. "This great faith in gradualness . . . assumes what may be called the haystack theory of social problems, that is, that our culture confronts a fixed quantum of...
Now the unofficial capital for a new study spreading rapidly through U. S. schools, Stephens' Institute last week held the first national conference on consumer education. To it went some 600 teachers, admen, editors and merchants. The conference was not devoted entirely to cheering. Said Rockefeller Foundation's...
THE HEROES-Millen Brand-Simon & Schuster ($2). Two years ago Millen Brand's The Outward Room gave 100,000 readers a large lump in their throats. That simple, moving story described the redemption of a forgotten girl through the loving sympathy of a good man. The Heroes, slighter and...
In conclusion, let us look at the plan as a whole. The goal of the House athletic scheme is a double one, quantity and quality. Improving one without the other defeats the very purpose of sport. The plan we launch attempts bettering both at once, quality from the top, with...