Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Globe. "I watched, with increasing alarm, the lack of fundamental information possessed by the pupils who entered the high school, and the disappearance of standards demanded of them by the colleges when they were ready to leave. The elementary schools, by misapplication of the theories of Dewey and Freud, had eliminated unpleasant work and had substituted play . . . The colleges had so diluted their entrance requirements that they ceased to function as incentives to scholarship...
...Education Fun? In his generation at Boston Latin, a public high school that has been one of the most respected secondary schools in the U.S., Marson always practiced what he now preaches. His boys knew precisely what they would get from their round-faced, jovial schoolmaster: hard work and solid teaching in the fundamentals of composition and literature. Marson scoffed at curve-grading (the clod-coddling marking system that is based on the class average), insisted that his boys measure up to definite levels. One bright boy who measured up: Composer Leonard Bernstein, who still talks of Marson...
...past three decades, Marson will run his boys' camp in New Hampshire. But next fall, his critique of American education squarely on the record. Schoolmaster Marson hopes to be back in a classroom giving his fact-packed lectures on Shakespeare and syntax that so well prepared his Boston Latin boys for college...
...stores restricted competition to a few fast-selling items; now they match discounters dollar for dollar. Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Los Angeles' Barker Bros., Jordan, Marsh Co. have started running almost identical ads proclaiming an old retailing slogan: "We Will Not Be Undersold." Milwaukee's Boston Store last week advertised: "Save 22% to 50% on ... famous Westinghouse appliances." Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. now tells customers that if they can find a better bargain elsewhere, Hudson's will cut its price to match...
Died. Frederick M. Dearborn Jr., 46, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Security Operations Coordination, watchdog over the implementation of National Security Council decisions; of shock and acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Washington. Educated at Harvard and a lieutenant colonel in World War II, Boston Lawyer Dearborn joined the White House Staff last...