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Eleanor Roosevelt's note, that stress upon training individual personalities has done away with some of the essential disciplines, and Director Taylor's remark, "When learning becomes drudgery, it usually ceases to be productive," taken together point the way to the fault of schooling today. Attempting to be good teachers and to eliminate drudgery, we have failed to replace it with useful work...
Although a large share for the responsibility for the delay of the '49 Book must fall on the editorial officers, basically the fault lies in the mechanism of Council control. It can be argued with justification that the Council was overburdened this fall with problems of seemingly higher priority, such as the constitution. Even in the field of publications, two Senior Albums and two Red Books presented a challenge to legislative patience. As for the '49 Book, successive meetings saw one partially informed member convince the Council that everything was progressing according to schedule. By successive repetition, this hopeful hypothesis...
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...caption over the item concerning William Tatem Tilden II [TIME, Jan. 27] read "Fault!" Would it not have been more appropriately "Fault...
Before the Connie went into commercial service, said he, it had been put through 4,670 hours, or 1,401,000 miles, of test flying-without a single injury. The fire which got the Connie grounded last summer was no fault of the engine's induction system, as had been suspected, but was started by a short-circuited electric fitting. When this fitting was redesigned and a few other slight modifications made, the Connie, "already a fine airplane, became undoubtedly the most advanced airplane of its class . . . with respect to safety." The subsequent crash of a T.W.A. Constellation...