Word: blackmere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second evening of the conference, "General Education and the Secondary Schools" will be discussed by Barnaby C. Keeney, President of Brown; Alan R. Blackmer, Director of Studies at Phillips Academy; Francis Keppel, Dean of the School of Education at Harvard, and Lloyd S. Michael, Superintendent of High Schools, Evanston, Illinois...
Yale has thus become the first of the Big Three after Harvard to implement recommendations of the Blackmer Report, published in January 1953. The report offered plans to make smoother the transition from secondary school college, and seven-year program for the "superior student...
Last fall premature announcements were made that Princeton was about to put the Blackmer report--which proposed wide spread changes designed to speed up the work of the superior student--into effect, and admit qualified eleventh graders...
...believe that 1) Tony Curtis is an engineering genius, and 2) Piper Laurie is capable of designing a sports car. For the rest, it is a routine, summer-weight Technicolor film that spends most of its time following a road race from the Canadian border to Lower California. Sidney Blackmer and Paul Kelly huff and puff at each other as a pair of old-crony businessmen; Piper Laurie, a talented exponent of the bosom-and-pout school of acting, stamps her foot occasionally and flirts tamely with Villain Don Taylor; Actor Curtis runs into a hero's usual hard...
...church off Park Avenue on 35th Street and in their church in Brooklyn Heights, the prosperous-looking, efficient men and women of New Jerusalem heard reports of mild but encouraging growth in the U.S. and the rest of the world (total membership: 25,000). Said Convention President Franklin H. Blackmer, keying his words to the main theme of the forthcoming World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston, 111.: "The Second Coming of the Lord is a process already going on, changing the very environment ... of all mankind. It is not to be a bodily Coming . . . That Second Coming...