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Great stress is laid upon the creative arts, and music plays a particularly large role in every student's life. Courses are offered in art, drama, dance, shop, and music, and individual performances and work are strongly encouraged. Three evenings a week are devoted to various extra-curricular activities, of which the arts form a major share. The entire school has one evening each week of choral singing, and performances, both small and ambitious, are frequent...
...arts is accepted as axiomatic, and serves as a clear example of the way in which Putney uses the community as an instrument of persuasion and education. Jazz was for a long while virtually non-existent, not because of any ban, but because the prevailing school opinion looked down upon it as a lower art form, if an art at all. But despite any opposition, there is hardly a single alumnus for whom classical music is not an important part of life. Music has been important principally because of the school's dynamic musical director, Mr. Norwood Hinkle...
...college records, and are not revealed to the student, who is only told if he is failing or non-certifying; written reports are given three times a year. This system does eliminate personal competition, but students are perfectly aware that they are being marked, and that college depends upon those marks...
Scarsdale, furthermore, acquaints all seniors with the necessary techniques for writing a comparatively long research paper, from 1500 to 5000 words. The "source theme" is the big academic adventure (or bane, depending upon one's out look) of the senior year. In this six-week project, students leaf through a couple of dozen books and scribble a gross of note cards in an involved process which a Harvard student goes through only with his honors thesis. Unfortunately complication and not critical analysis of a subject is stressed, but the practise does provide a valuable preview of research methods. With...
Herschell, of course, is a stereotype, one of thousands of America's gifted children turned out of high school incubators with a diploma, a pat on the back, perhaps a tear or two, and three or four years of intellectual stasis behind him. His are the narrow shoulders upon which the nation expects to climb to the moon, to harness atomic energy for peaceful purposes, to solve the questions of sociological change, and to patch up the globular balloon for another generation of battering. He is also our greatest tragedy...