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Married. Queena Mario (nee Tillotson, near Akron, Ohio) noted chanteuse of Manhattan's famed Metropolitan Opera Company; to Wilfrid Pelletier, orchestral director of the Metropolitan; at Winnetka...
Miss Mabel Vogel, of the Winnetka, Ill., public library, seeing what a business it is for parents and teachers to find the right reading for the young idea, enlisted teachers in 35 cities to collect ballots from 36,700 school children and enable her to make out a graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared...
Seats. "If the Parent-Teacher Association should do nothing but provide more comfortable seats [hygienic, adjustable] for the school children of the Nation, it would more than justify its existence."-Mrs. B. F. Langivorthy, Winnetka, Ill., the Association's Vice President...
...Other important Chicago suburbs : Riverside, whilom seat of Society; Hinsdale and Wheaton, gentleman-farmer communities; Oak Park, Rogers Park and Wilmette, ''middle class" communities, civic-spirited; Evanston, puritanical and efficient; Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, more countrified and country-clubby; Highland Park, a cross between these and the larger pretensions of Evanston; Lake Forest, "the Newport of the Middle West...
...President Eliot encourage the editors of Progressive Education to teach teachers concerning the various developments in progressive education at home and abroad. The first number of the new quarterly contains articles on the three chief systems of individual education now in practice-the Dalton plan (English and American), the Winnetka system (Winnetka, Ill.), the Decroly method (Belgian). It is published at Washington by the Progressive Education Association, No. 1719 35th...