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...years ago long, angular Headmaster John Wayne (''Big Dick") Richards of Lake Forest (Ill.) Academy had an idea. Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head, he reasoned that secondary education should be more vital, more effective. Last year his idea became a plan (TIME, Aug. 18). Lake Forest's recitation periods were extended to 90 min., 45 min. being devoted to discussion and preparation of the next day's lesson. Staggered and rotating, the school schedule was revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous...
...Also last week Cheyenne reported forest fires raging through dry Wyoming. Dude ranchers turned out to fight the flames. Two fire fighters: Junius Spencer Morgan, son of Banker John Pierpont Morgan; Daniel Roosevelt, nephew of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...without Portfolio at the time of the Armistice, it was his melancholy duty not only to sign the Armistice but to persuade Germany that she had to accept the Versailles Treaty. Schultz and Tillessen, two Bavarian Nationalists acting under orders from German secret societies, murdered him in the Black Forest...
Engaged. Katharine Sargent Hare, daughter of Lawyer-Author Thomas Truxtun Hare (Making the Freshman Team, Sophomore Halfback, Philip Kent); and Frederic McLaughlin II of Lake Forest...
Fleet and shy is the okapi, member of the giraffe family and denizen only of Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Okapi have been captured, but never photographed in their native environment, which is one of the most dense jungles known to man. Distinctive feature of the okapi is its striped hindquarters.* Therefore when Explorer Cornelius P. Bezuidenhout brought back from the Ituri section closeup pictures of the jungle okapi, Illustrated London News not only featured his photographs and ran a long story by him, but used a closeup rear-view of a female okapi as its full-page frontispiece...