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...Student Playground...
...letter written to the Corporation on June 5, 1890, Higginson said: "My hope is that the ground will be used for the present as a playground for the students...
Ranging in age from two-and-a-half to four, they are all enrolled in the Harvard Preschool, a nursery school for demonstration and experimentation established by the Graduate School of Education. The school as housed in three squat quonset huts surrounded by a playground at 5 Kirkland Place...
...suburbia. It is located two miles west of Columbus, between U.S. Highway 40 and the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. General Motors already has a plant there, and Westinghouse is building one. The village will be built around a 20-acre civic center, with a school, library, churches, playground and wooded park. It will have apartment buildings, single homes priced from $9,000 to $16,000, and a shopping center. Before the town is completed (target date: 1959), Lincoln hopes to see other communities like it springing up all over the country...
...Rabbi!" Saul Alinsky and Joe Meegan were also there last week for the bishop's 25th anniversary. The Jewish sociologist and the Irish playground director were the bishop's right & left hands in the late !30's when he set out to fight Communism among the tough, discontented unemployed of Chicago's stockyards. The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council brought democracy and self-respect into an explosive situation. The packers, who at first did not like the unionization that went with it, learned to be grateful for the bishop's work...