Word: winnetka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BETTER SCHOOLS" professes to be "a survey of progressive education in American public schools." It is written by Carleton Washburne, the superintendent of the public school system in Winnetka, Illinois, who has transformed his schools into an educational laboratory; and by Myron M. Stearns, a graduate of Stanford University and a magazine author of note. The collaboration is a fortunate one, the joint product being both instructive and entertaining, something which cannot be said of the majority of the many books now being written on the subject of secondary education...
...felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
Thomas Boal '31, of Winnetka, Ill., has been named chairman of the Regatta Committee. Boal is a graduate of the North Shore Country Day School. The Regatta Committee is to be composed of Bruce Wallace Hislop '31, of Troy, New York; David Riesman Jr. '31, of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Geoffrey Augustus Sawyer '31, of Arlington...
Died. George Wheeler Hinman, 62, Hearst financial writer; at Winnetka, Ill., from heart disease aggravated by ptomaine poisoning. President Coolidge sent a letter of condolence to the widow...
...themselves in a park roofed by tall trees. Some dined sumptuously at a restaurant and danced to jazz; others stocked up at the hot-dog stand, or picnicked at rustic tables in the woods; others arrived in evening frocks and white flannels, from dinner parties at Lake Forest or Winnetka. Two thousand spectators sat under a high wooden canopy. (It keeps the rain out and keeps the music within.) Many others sat on the grassy slopes counting stars, spellbound, one night last week, by strains of Puccini...