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Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.
Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.

Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.

Date11/11/1977
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Humber college graduates 2,118, Humber College graduated more students this year - 2,118 - than in any of its previous classes in its 11-year history, a college spokesman said
Humber college graduates 2,118, Humber College graduated more students this year - 2,118 - than in any of its previous classes in its 11-year history, a college spokesman said
6/17/1978
It's more like entertainment than education as Toronto Mayor David Crombie talks with students at Forest Hill Collegiate during an 18-hour day of camp(...)
It's more like entertainment than education as Toronto Mayor David Crombie talks with students at Forest Hill Collegiate during an 18-hour day of camp(...)
11/29/1976
Book Buddies: Two students, one from kindergarten, the other Grade 2, are allowed to wander off together and read wahtever they want for up to 20 minutes
Book Buddies: Two students, one from kindergarten, the other Grade 2, are allowed to wander off together and read wahtever they want for up to 20 minutes
6/20/1987
It's just a natural thing at Bathurst Heights Secondary School for Principal Warren Huland to find students painting a mural on his door. Painter is A(...)
It's just a natural thing at Bathurst Heights Secondary School for Principal Warren Huland to find students painting a mural on his door. Painter is A(...)
4/30/1970
Hitting the books takes its toll as students suffer eye strain (top left) and work hard at staying alert (top)
Hitting the books takes its toll as students suffer eye strain (top left) and work hard at staying alert (top)
4/3/1987
Let's do 50 more! College students are gung-ho for exercise and fun punishment at the third annual Aerobathon at Humber College. More than 300 student(...)
Let's do 50 more! College students are gung-ho for exercise and fun punishment at the third annual Aerobathon at Humber College. More than 300 student(...)
10/21/1988
Air polluter: Even though it's not glamorous any more, many older smokers find it hard to quit
Air polluter: Even though it's not glamorous any more, many older smokers find it hard to quit
1/8/1990
The logographic-emblematical French spelling-book, or, French pronunciation made easy : being a method by which any child, four or five years old, and of ever so slow an apprehension, although perfectly unacquainted with his letters, will, in a few months, be enabled to read French fluently, and will pronounce its as if he were a Parisian born : to which are added, besides instructions to enable any person to put this method in practice, a systematical appendix, justifying its principles, as likewise various reading-pieces, of the composition of the author, highly interesting, at least for their novelty
The logographic-emblematical French spelling-book, or, French pronunciation made easy : being a method by which any child, four or five years old, and of ever so slow an apprehension, although perfectly unacquainted with his letters, will, in a few months, be enabled to read French fluently, and will pronounce its as if he were a Parisian born : to which are added, besides instructions to enable any person to put this method in practice, a systematical appendix, justifying its principles, as likewise various reading-pieces, of the composition of the author, highly interesting, at least for their novelty
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Stacking the debt: More and more Canadian university students like Fred Kuntz (above) are using credit to pay for tuition, books and residence.
Stacking the debt: More and more Canadian university students like Fred Kuntz (above) are using credit to pay for tuition, books and residence.
2/8/1980
Ho-hum: It's not that Charlie Greenbury, 7, isn't interested, it's just that it's past a Grade 1 student's bedtime
Ho-hum: It's not that Charlie Greenbury, 7, isn't interested, it's just that it's past a Grade 1 student's bedtime
4/10/1980
It's a bird . . . It's a plane . . . No, it's the teacher!, Sheppard Avenue Public School kindergarden teacher John Cavers does magic tricks for his students
It's a bird . . . It's a plane . . . No, it's the teacher!, Sheppard Avenue Public School kindergarden teacher John Cavers does magic tricks for his students
12/15/1987
Piano teacher Boris Berlin, 78, has taught some 1,000 students at the Royal Conservatory of Music and reached hundreds of thousands more through his piano books, which have sold 4 million copies. 'A person will love music if he understands it,' he believes.
Piano teacher Boris Berlin, 78, has taught some 1,000 students at the Royal Conservatory of Music and reached hundreds of thousands more through his piano books, which have sold 4 million copies. 'A person will love music if he understands it,' he believes.
6/21/1985