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Should boys-even little boys-be taught by women? No, said Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters, whose members teach in local council and church schools. At Scarborough last week, the schoolmasters unanimously agreed that teaching was "man's work," and called for a law to abolish schoolmarms. Grumped Schoolmaster D. N. Thomas: "These avaricious hordes of women already have staked a claim in our field, and the sooner they are smoked out, the better it will be for the boys of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ought To Be a Law | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...With that added aid, students could plan course programs more easily for two years ahead. In any case, the Faculty's decision to bring its once-mysterious catalogue up to date is an encouraging sing of progress--a sign which is paralleled by its other wise decision to abolish compulsory hour exams, attendance, and mid-term grades. Things seem to be looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Gray Booklet | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

...Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee," replied Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in a violent answer yesterday to the committee's accusation that Edward U. Condon, head of the Government Bureau of Standards, is "one of the weakest links in our atomic security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Scientists Back Condon As Bridgman Hits House Committee | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

...Germans kindly, kindness will stir in them. If we show them mercy, they will know, by the immediacy of contact, how 'delightful' mercy is. ... A society cannot be brought into being by doing just the things which it is the very purpose of the intended society to abolish forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Drowning Children | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...power of veto went in 1911, but they could still delay legislation. Labor was out to clip this delaying period from two years to one. The Lords suspected another aim: to draw the Lords' last teeth and leave the hereditary House as a Blimpish appendage-or even abolish it altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a Decent, British Manner | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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