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Northfield's purpose is twofold: it provides an education for the worthy indigent, it supplements the public school facilities of backward communities. Each member of the community works some part of each day, earns 64% of his or her keep. Thus when Arthur Curtiss James gave Mount Hermon a gymnasium not long ago, the inmates turned out and filled, graded, drained, seeded a playing field which would have cost...
...gradually disappearing as the Eskimos build neat wooden houses to take their place. Flowers are being cultivated-think of that in Greenland! Some of the Eskimo women are becoming interested in window boxes. During the summer, I can tell you, they make a brave, bright show!" Not so backward as many people suppose, the Eskimos of Greenland publish two newspapers (monthlies) in Eskimo...
...American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
...Burt Noyes he toured the spas and pump houses of Europe: Vichy, Nauheim, Baden-Baden, Bath, Montecatini, taking notes. He returned last week, full of ideas. For their million dollars, New York cardiacs and taxpayers will have the largest pump house in the world. Because U. S. spas are backward in their understanding of Regime? diet, exercise, rest facilities to accompany a water cure?Architect Freedlander will concentrate on appurtenances...
...Manhattan where his family now lives? his wife who was Angela Gianelli, an able pianist; Louis Jr., 12, also studying the piano; Rolf, 10, who shows marked talent for the violin. Since the spectacular success of his prodigies he has been besieged by parents, some with precocious, some with backward children. He is ignorantly supposed to be able to develop genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils a great deal, is at the same time careful not to stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness...