Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clause and Rohr countered that education in many states is not as bad as statistics tend to show. The states, they claimed, aren't making enough of an effort to settle their own schooling problems. Federal aid might well destroy the initiative of local education units, the Crimson debaters added...
...reading course had its beginnings in 1933 when Walter F. Dearborn of the Graduate School of Education gave a course called "Remedial Reading" to 30 students. Later the term "remedial" was dropped because Harvard men aren't supposed to have any reading disabilities...
Last week, the school invited him back, even had reporters there to cover his lecture. Wildman, who likes publicity, readily accepted and brought samples of his best canes with him. "Aren't they beautiful?" he asked, and thereupon launched happily into his lecture about his canes ("My canes are antiseptic"), and how they should be used. "You may think me an ogre," he said. "But corporal punishment is a common-sense doctrine. Boys & girls are not always angelic...
...Social Sciences aren't complex; only their terminology is confusing. The cards have been shuffled and there is a glimmer of hope that general principles will soon appear," he said...
When he speaks, he seems to be in agony of intensity. First his fist presses the table until he almost puts his entire weight on it; later his fingers grasp air with tenseness and tautness--early with violence. These mannerisms aren't superficial. They come out of a terrific absorption in ideas. They come out of an effort to express those ideas clearly, completely, and precisely. And Hartz is so successful in this effort that his audience laughs, not because what he says is funny, but because it is so perfectly right. The laughter comes form aesthetic satisfaction...