Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep-frozen midriff of Canada to the near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale,/Thorough flood, thorough fire . . ." in pursuit of their quarry. When the chase was over, the hunters had no trophies to show, for they did their hunting with nothing more deadly than binoculars and telescopes. They were devotees of the flourishing sport of bird watching, and last...
Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, accused Douglas Bush, Walter Changing Fellow, of using "undefined and ambiguous statements" and "unsubstantiated generalizations...
...Bush, who later said he was "definitely not talking about Harvard," deplored the lower standards in education resulting from the "flood of students" pouring into colleges and universities...
While stating that he agreed with several of Bush's criticisms, Ulich asserted, "I am afraid that Mr. Bush does not do a service to the cause of education, as he could have done with more knowledge and moderation, and as it stands now, the whole thing is a pity...
...Bush made several other attacks on current educational policies. He complained that college freshmen were so devoid of "the rudiments of expression" that they needed the elementary composition course, which he described as a "monstrosity...