New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Kid Comparatives

needn't make such a fuss about Il
Think you're lot, don't you, because
they had a picture Of your bookkeeping
class in last Sundays paper. go to
real educational institution. Yours isn't
a school; old Abraham Flexner himself
admits it's only an experiment. When
you go to the Raleigh Classical Acad.
erny, you're going to an Al hall of learn.
ing. It's peach of place. Puts it all
over yours. Just yesterday we were
reading the fourth paragraph of the
second book of Caesars Gallo War.
That guy certainly could use a sublime.
tive with felicity and precision. He's a
whiz!
First Little Boy (vith tinge Of jea!.
ousy): You may be having lot of fun.
but let me tell you it's sheer waste Of
time. Last night father was reading
from the report of the Rockefeller
Foundation, and it's heartbreaking TO
see how school like yours can ruin
kids career. You won't know thing
about life when you get out into the
world. Ny father says so, and he knows.
He went to your school. Says he'll
never do it over again. What we need,
Freddie, is preparation for life; we've
got to learn to grapple with modern
problems. My father wouldn't do a
thing to me if wasted my time fooling
around subjunctive. Oh, no. Just
you wait. Twenty years from now I'll
be sitting at the head of a soap packing
concern, tingling with modernity, and
where'll you be, you poor second hand
edition of Latin dictionary? Home
reading the third book of Caesar, sup
pose."
Second Little Boy: That's the trouble
with your crowd over at the Modern
School. Never think of anything but
your future. Don't give darn for the
higher life My Latin teacher says your
bookkeeping teacher hasn't any rever
ence for the past. And my cousin told
me you once cut class in Greek history
to learn touch typewriting. A fine
crowd, you are. First thing you know
we'll cut you out of our basketball
schedule. We've got to draw the line
somewhere.
First Little Boy: Cut the irrelevant
chatter, Aristophanes, and get little
realism in that dome shaped classical
dictionary of yours. Over at our school
we know something about life. go
home every day roofing for realities.
My mother says she never saw such a
change in boy. It's wonderful what
that class in clay modelling has done for
me. I'm just beginning to appreciate
modern civilization. And if my father
didn't hear Mr.. Flexner at lecture one
night might be in your Latin class.
Second Little Boy: Do you really have
a good time over there?"
First Little Boy: A good timei We've
got individual clay modelling sets and
typewriters with black and red ribbons.
And one adding machine for every three
boys. It's lots of fun. And gee whiz'
it certainly does make one cognizant
of the stern realities of the world.
When you're through you're all ready to
take your little place in modern civiliEa-
ton. Imagined And we don't even have
to take elementary algebra, if we're
going to be literary men or something
like that.
Second Little Boy: Well, anyhow
we've got stereopticon views of the
Parthenon and the Capitoline Hill. It'd
be nice to have typewriter, | guess;
there's only one in our school, in the
principals office. It's invisible, and It
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