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...winning speakers were: J. David Baumann '52, Cambridge; Walter C. Carrington '52, Lowell House; William J. DeMuth '53, Lowell House; Richard J. Larkin '51, Kirkland House; Roger A. Moore '53, Dunster House; Donald C. Mork '52, Newton; Edward S. Wells '51, Ayer; John J. Trudon '51, Dunster House; Edward L. Snow '53, Revere; and Marvin E. Mazie '52, Kirkland House...
...Fred Ayer of the University of Texas tested high-school students in 82 cities, then reached back to 1915 for comparison. Sample findings: in 1915, high-school students had no trouble with trouble, but nowadays, 9% manage to spell it wrong; almost everybody used to get loose right, but 23% muff it now. Misspellers of business have jumped from 6% in 1915 to 24% today; of independent from 12% to 25%; of stomach, from...
...Partly, says Ayer, because high schools now carry along a lot of low I.Q.s who used to drop out at grade-school level. But more important: elementary schools spend less time on spelling, often do not teach it as a separate subject at all. Says Ayer: "Children are taught to read by phrases and whole sentences, and they aren't taught that each word represents an idea. Perhaps it's good for reading, but it's bad for spelling...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, in a debate yesterday with attorney Frederick Ayer, Jr. '37 at the Arlington Street Church, strongly opposed the "Gibraltar" foreign policy of Herbert Hoover, stressing the importance of an American-sponsored European rearmament...
Both Schlesinger and Ayer, Democrat and Republican respectively, agreed that the United States must play an active role in the support of European defenses. On the domestic front both men advocated price controls on the home front against an anticipated inflation...