Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson cricketers open their spring season in New York Sunday afternoon against the champion Staten Island Cricket Club. Ed Seaga will captain, and his team will include veteran batsman Frank Davies, and two Australian newcomers, Jim Ongley and Win Richards...
Modern man worries so much about his ability to measure up to the challenges of his environment that he often, literally, worries himself sick. So believes Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, chancellor of Sydney University and grand old (78) man of Australian medicine, who sees patients when other doctors have not been able to decide what ails them. Most alarming, Physician Blackburn feels, is the fact that for the first time in history, man may have reached the point where he admits defeat in the face of great odds...
...seeds of this change were sown by two great pioneers whose names are scarcely known-Frederick Winslow Taylor, a onetime day laborer, and Elton Mayo, an Australian immigrant turned Harvard sociologist. Their work did not seem related, but it was. Taylor, who died in 1915, was the father of scientific management; he increased industrial production by rationalizing it. Mayo, who died in 1949, was the father of industrial human relations; he increased production by humanizing...
...well aware that in several English-speaking nations public funds are used to assist church-connected schools. This is the practice in England, Scotland, and to some degree in some Australian states. Whether the state and the church or churches can develop a working arrangement that prevents a state control of the church or church control of the state is another story. My concern is with the United States. We do not have and have never had an established church. To my mind, our schools should serve all creeds. The greater the proportion of our youth who attend independent schools...
Princeton's Dillon pool was packed to the rafters last week for the N.C.A.A. swimming championship. But few in the crowd had eyes for Michigan's Australian-born John Davies in the 200-yd. breaststroke event. Almost everyone was watching the front-running battle between Princeton's Bob Brawner, the world record holder, and Ohio State's Jerry Holan. Then, at the halfway mark, rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) Davies began to move...