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TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN f 32,4
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Don is 7, quiet and shy when he, first meets, people, playful and
affectionate when he feels comfortable with them.
Indian and white in descent, he has black hair, inown eyes
and dark skin. He is in excellent health and well co-ordinated so
will perhaps be a good athlete. He is already making a start,
being interested in all kinds of games. '
• Donald loves school though he has a Short attention span.
When he first came into the care of the Children's Aid Society he
appeared considerably below normal in ability. He has improved
a great deal and starts Grade 2-with a rating in the lower half of
the normal range.
An appealing,' lovable child, Donald needs a mother andfather
who will give him much attention and ‘Vho preferably have had
some experience with deprived and/or abused children. There
should be no children in the family close to him in age.
To inquire abdut adopting Don, please write to Today's Child,
Ministry of Communkty,and Social Seryices, Box $88, Station K,
Toronto M4P 2H2. In your letter tell something of your present
family and your way of life.
Toplets
matches
developed
A new type of match will be on
the market this fall. A match that
snuffs itself out.
Millions of books of paper
matches are distributed free
every year. Most.of them are used
to light cigarettes, cigars and
pipes that are smoked in this
country every year.
The design of paper matches
hasn't changed much since 1911,
when safer chemicals replaced
the poisonous white phosphorous
which had been used previously.
But now one company has
produced a match that is coated
with fire-resistant chemicals just
below the tip. The match burnS
for. 12 to 15 seconds. Then it
flickers out without being blown
on or shaken.
The manufacturer hopes to
reduce the t housands of match-.
related accidents that happen
every year. Too many people, die
annually in fires, many of them
caused by still-lit cigarettes or
burning matches.
\The new design is clearly a step
in a safer direction. Of course, an
even more inspired project would
be a tobacco-resistant match. One
that only lights up the candles on
birthday *cakes, for instance.
According to the American.
Lung Association, one company
did produce books of topless
Matches as a public service. The.
message printed on the inside
cover said that 300,000
Americans die every year ,from
cigarette-caused diseases, that
smoking was the major cause of
severe heart and lung disease.
Your 'lung association - -the
Christmas Seal people - has a
great deal of information about
the hazards of Cigarette smoking
and how to snuff out .the habit
altogether. Contact them. It's a
Matter. of Life and. Breath.
University by tape is they latest
"It is now possible to obtain a literally hundreds in the Toronto
general bachelor of arts degree, area alone.
ither non-major major in "We launched this program to
rzample," says Dr. A. E. "Ted" course to high school teachers
ixon, a UW physicist and who were interested in upgrading
ssociate director of the corres- their • qualifications," says Dr.
Jim Leslie. `'But today there are
people from all walks of life
'taking the courses. We see almost
no limit to the number who can
become interested..
pr: Leslie claims the taped
lectures give the Student some of
the feel for and enthusiasm for
the subjects that would ordinarily
be imparted in a classrooth
lecture. there are. important
egin mailing upwards of 100,000 • completed. In, addition, students
ape cassettes to more than may write to professors in
,000 students who are expected connection with any particular
o enrol for correspondence difficulties that may arise.
urses in 1967-77. Correspondence brings UW's
The rapid growth of the education programs to Canadians
aterloo program with more than, in the far north, in-Newfound-
50 courses available this year land, in British Columbia . . and
as made it the largest university- even to those, both Canadians
evel correspondence program in and non-Canadians, in a number
'le country. As a result, complete of other countries as well. Most of
egree requirements can now be those taking the courses live in
Met in several fields. Ontario, however. There are possible," says Dr. Leslie. "This
iidenee
students. oStciaeiteis Provide their' own cassette tape players; listen to the tapes in the' OtlifOrt and convenience iheie
atria study the fektS, and
There's a new explosion on the supplementary materials the
ducatiolial horizon --'corres - university also sends them.
pondence courses on tape' -- and Students also complete a variety
the University of Waterloo, of work assignments and projects
here it all began, it is now which they mail back to UW.
ence program. *"A student
an also get a general non-major
aclielor of science degree or a
ass degree in matheniatios."
Dr. Dixon believes Waterloo is
y Canadian university t out lectures on tape.
Protn our ckperietice o I think it
tii become the biggest thing to
appen to universities since the
assive expansion of the 60's.•" The
ossible to obtain a B.A., B.Math Later, they get back further don't have to spend time copying •
B.Sc. degree without setting a "tutorial" tapes on. which the I material down from the
oot on campus. professors offer comments on the l blackboard, as university
Next month Waterloo will way the assignments have been students -customarily do," Dr.
sychology or histor ' three. • c' y, • for 'provide ree- or four sewn e
invosity Sends out t s to travel long distances to take 13' BELG AVE BRANCH
convenience and flekibility
a new dimension by combining
with TV Ontario to offer a general
interest history course, "The
Meaning of Civilization i " in
which the mailed-out tape
cassettes will be supplemented by
twice 'Weekly TV showings of Sir •
Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" 6t'S like having the profess'er sdries.
tends to reduce the number of
questions. In some cases too, the
library availability* problem isn't
too bad., because these students•
do have access to other universi-
ties' libraries,.
"We also try and help students
get together to whatever extent
this is possible. We do this,,
because we feel student-to-. -
student interaction is an
important part of the university
education, So we send each
student a lists with the addresses
of all the other students in the
This year the program will add
come right into your home to
teach, whenever you request him
or her to do so.
"We even provide complete •
sets of lecture notes so students
Leslie says.
He admits there are a couple of
disadvantages: For one thing,
there is not the • immediate
question and-answer exchange
one can get in a classroom with a
live professor; for another, there
may not be library materials
handy.
"We try • to get.around • these
problems by sending out course
materials that are as complete as
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