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...President saw it. was that the nation was lurching out of certainty into uncertainty, from faith to doubt, from classlessness to class, from dedication to don't care, in a downgrading of the land of promise into a factory in which the gates of opportunity might snap shut...
Theodore Roosevelt, peering out into the new century with the eye of the new century, was determined with soul of fire that the gates of opportunity would not snap shut. ''I preach the gospel of hope ... I ask that we see to it in our country thaf the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class; but that the line be drawn on the line of conduct...
Wearing paper badges with the letters TEE (Traditional Education Experiment), pupils found themselves snapping to attention when teacher entered the room or called on them to recite. On the grounds girls curtsied, boys doffed hats or bowed for Teacher Ansley; in class, all set to work to cover in seven weeks the 485-page textbook that was supposed to last all year. Though the pupils clearly dislike the bowing, and being punished by time-consuming chores, they took to their new life with surprising enthusiasm. Classroom silence, they found, made paying attention a breeze; required note-taking and constant review...
...Dominican embassy in Washington last fall, Bradford put 30 detectives to work when Ramfis arrived for school. Most of the agents are off-duty policemen or sheriff's deputies, who can spot a suspicious stranger instantly. To buttress their memories, the detectives use tiny cameras to snap hundreds of pictures of passers-by for comparison at Bradford's frequent briefings. The fleet of patrol cars is linked by shortwave radio to the Ambassador headquarters and to local police networks. Ramfis is accompanied constantly by two Dominican officers, and all three are armed; even the houseboy in Leavenworth packs...
...many of the teachers, the course is anything but a snap. While the pupils grasp the latest teaching with ease, the teachers must first discard much of what they were taught, master such new (to them) terms as Cartesian products, null sets and strict inequalities. "In trigonometry, for instance," says Supervisor Hoel, "the emphasis used to be on surveying and navigation. Now the emphasis is on vectors, the theory of sets, probability, statistics and symbolic logic...