Close to the peak of Old Screamer Mountain, looking out over the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge, sits Laurel Falls, a swank camp-school for girls. There for more than 20 years magnetic, pompadoured Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith has taught a special kind of school. Some 60 well-to-do kids (including, last year, Golfer Robert Tyre Jones's daughters Clara and Ellen) are given, among other things, the facts of life according to the latest precepts of progressive education.
Last week Lillian Smith, in the October issue of Progressive Education, reported verbatim a typical seminar. Miss...
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