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Under Miscellany of TIME, May 6, was an item headed "Scared" telling of a boy, age five, frightened by a dog and within six hrs. losing his hair. I gave this topic in Current Events and my teacher called me down before the whole class. I received no grade for the topic for she said it did not happen and was not possible. I told her it came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter...
...illness, such as typhoid fever, which might have affected his hair. The doctor said, and other doctors have hesitated to contradict him, that scare and baldness were evidently cause and effect. Let Marian Shields's teacher not be dogmatic, not withhold Marian Shields's grade...
...unlike the U. S. educational system is Canada's. To each province, as to each U. S. state, is left the administration of public grade schools, high schools, colleges. But Canadian colleges cling to English form and traditions, resemble Harvard, Yale, Princeton rather than the Universities of Michigan, Nebraska, California...
...stated that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the College had just voted that a grade of 70 percent in the admission examination in Advanced German or French, known on College Board Examinations as German or French cp 4, be accepted in satisfaction of the reading knowledge requirements in those languages. This new ruling, following immediately upon the Faculty decision of last year to count advanced German or French toward entrance requirement, will permit students to pass off their requirement without having to take one of the special examinations or a half-course in either German or French...
...March 4, shortly after noon, Helen Terwilliger, 13, sat comfortably in her eighth grade U. S. history class in the Walden, N. Y., public school. She was primed for what she was about to hear over the radio. She had memorized the Presidential oath, as prescribed by the Constitution, and was positive it ended with the words: "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...