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...part of the recently instituted program of lectures by officers to enlisted men in the Army about the background of this war, Harvard's officers have been lecturing the detachment of enlisted men at Soldiers Field...
...tonight and the latest Cole Porter musical tomorrow night and comment intelligently on both. This calls for immediate reactions to an art form existing only for a short period of time. A high aesthetic standard, a delight in the whole range of the theatre, snap judgment, and a scholarly background--these are the requisites for the drama critic. No wonder that the critic retreats into individualistic displays of bon mots and wit in his reviews...
...from Denver's public high schools to Massachusetts' swank Milton Academy, eventually delivered four classes (1936 to 1939) to the colleges. A staff of impartial college judges paired each of 1,475 Progressive students with a conventional-school graduate of the same intelligence, sex, age, interests, family background...
From this background, the 30 schools jumped off into empty space. Given a free hand to build an entirely new curriculum that would serve all their students, they floundered, philosophized, struck out in all directions. They launched courses ranging from The Progress of Man Through the Ages to Football from the Spectator's Point of 'View. Eventually they gathered principals, teachers, parents and students and sat down to get their bearings. Their decision: "A school is something more than curriculum and teaching. It is a society in itself, composed of young people and adults living and working together...
Once they planned "a reverent, three-dimensional presentation of Da Vinci's Last Supper, with life-sized models of the apostles, trick lighting effects and a musical background of Gregorian chants supplied by a phonograph with an electrical record-changing device," but dropped it when they failed to find a suitable Catholic organization to sponsor it. "Rogers says, without any disrespect: 'The nuns would not play ball with...