Word: schoolrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stuyvesant Square. When its most famed rector. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, arrived in 1883 he asked and got, from a vestry of which the elder J. P. Morgan was a member, $10,000 a year to spend as he pleased on parish clubs, a summer camp, gymnasium and schoolroom. Dr. Rainsford died at 83 in 1933. Dedicated to him on his birthday last Sunday was a memorial of which he would have approved - Rainsford House, first innovation of St. George's rector of the last two years, Rev. Elmore McNeill McKee...
...building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters to cook, to run modern machinery. Symbolic of the Ford educational program is his carting the old cabin of William Holmes McGuffey, author of the famed readers, log by log to Greenfield, restoring it as a schoolroom with McGuffey furniture, and then supplying the building with indirect lighting and air conditioning...
...early 20s the Literary Digest had become one of the greatest publishing successes in history. Its weekly juxtaposition of contrary newspaper opinion and cartoons had won it 1,400,000 readers, made it a national institution, a schoolroom textbook, a gold mine for its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls Co. No small part of its prestige came from its famed straw votes, whose ballots were accompanied by profitable subscription appeals. For the best part of a generation these polls forecast national election results with great accuracy. But gift premiums added to straw votes were not sufficient to offset growing public apathy toward...
Broad-shouldered Oliver Carmichael was self-educated in the schoolroom and library built by his father, an Alabama farmer, for the family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army...
...Teacher," called a small girl in the back row. Two teachers' faces turned toward her. "May I write on the blackboard now?" Two teachers' voices answered simultaneously. "Yes," said one. "No," said the other. So last week in a little white clapboard schoolroom in Center Groton, Conn., Mrs. Hazel Bucklyn and Miss Ellen Innes vied for a $1,200 teaching...