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...waist, don clean cotton shirts, have their chests x-rayed to learn whether or not they have tuberculosis, enlarged hearts, dropped stomachs or other visceral derangement. Last year New Haven's progressive Department of Health & Board of Education found that 215 out of 563 children in one grade school had traces of tuberculosis. Of the 215, 71 (12.6% of the total) definitely had the disease. Health officials hope that the rate among the older students examined this week will be less, although they worried, "our greatest problem in tuberculosis at this time is among our children in the teen...
...refuted. Certification, used in 90 per cent of American colleges, permits too much leeway to be any accurate standard. Little account is taken of the frequently haphazard or outdated school courses, and there have also been more than a few cases of kind schoolmasters padding a student's grade. The Old Plan examination method of the oldest and best-known American universities depends too much on the chance that the pupil will have the ideal combination of "knowledge, health, and temperament, cleverness, and good luck" at one time...
...Seatrains (TIME, Oct. 17) which carry a mile of loaded freight cars. In 1930 the company began operating a gasoline pipe-line from Marcus Hook to Cleveland, running through Pittsburgh and Youngstown and branching north to Syracuse. The company claims to be the first to develop a high grade antiknock gasoline solely through improvement in cracking processes, as contrasted to the addition of chemicals. Sure of the merits of their Sun Oils and Sunoco gasolines, the Pews have never put out "fighting brands" to meet cheap competition. The company owns or controls 500 filling stations and supplies 11,000 others...
...recall I'd been having quite a little trouble with the boys the year he went to me (in the third grade)-not with him but with some of the bigger boys, and I asked the president of the school board to talk with them...
Crickard takes his Psychology makeup examination this morning and has been studying hard for it during the past week, turning up for brif workouts at Soldiers Field. The grade should be in within two days...