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...Yale. He now has 99 points toward his goal. Besides, his game record of 36 is second only to Lavelli's 40 markers. With 39 field goals already, he also has a good chance to pass the record of 79 set by Columbia's Walt Budke...
...take long for the citizens of Little Bay Side, L.I. to like the husky new schoolmaster who came to them one day in the 1830s. It was true, as one pupil later recalled, that young Walt Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...
...Walt Whitman's career as a schoolmaster was short: after five years he turned to journalism, took jobs with the Brooklyn Star and Brooklyn Eagle. But he never lost his interest in U.S. schools, and in his editorial columns he became one of the most dedicated educational critics of his day. In a new book edited by Florence Freedman, Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (King's Crown Press; $3.50), present-day parents and teachers can find a few lessons in the columns Walt Whitman wrote...
...Walt Whitman, education was more than "a heap of disjointed facts ... a proper education unfolds and develops every faculty in its just proportions . . . Its aim is ... to polish and invigorate the mind-to make it used to thinking and acting for itself, and to imbue it with a love for knowledge." Unfortunately, Walt Whitman noted sadly, the minds of too many students were more stunted than nourished by the sort of "rule and rote" he had seen: too often, said he, "the windows have not been thrown open, and all lies hushed and dark...
Promising sophomores looked fine. Walt Grecley made one think of his big brother Dick, and it was a pleasant reminiscence. Jim O'Brien looked good as the third defenseman. White, no sophomore but a new man on skates, was the best scrapper...