Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Open Door? The approach of the tidal wave has also had an effect on publicly supported institutions. Those that are required by law or tradition to take in every taxpayer's child with a high-school diplo ma within their states have begun to wonder whether they can expand rapidly enough to maintain their open-door policy. Some have already answered...
...beginning to disappear, but to some extent so is the gentleman. "A college education," says Headmaster Edward Hall of the Hill School, "is no longer a hereditary right like a membership in a club. It is a prize to be won against increasingly rigorous competition." Though the child of the old grad may still have a slight advantage, even top private Eastern prep schools can no longer guarantee him a place in the college of his choice. Says Headmaster Hall: "It's kind of hard on the Yale alumnus who develops a kid as bright as his father...
...Retention v. Admission. As the standards go up at both private and public institutions, some educators have begun to worry about whether the emphasis on brains and tests might go too far. Many state-supported schools still feel they have a moral obligation to give every taxpayer's child his chance, even though he may flunk out. "We believe," says President Fred Hovde of Purdue University, "in the doctrine of opportunity. If students fail, they at least know they've had their chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become...
Collector's Spree. The new World House Galleries is the brain child of TV-Station Pioneer Herbert Mayer. 48, who three years ago sold the last of his TV stations* for $8,500,000, took off for a European vacation that soon turned into an art-collecting spree (including the purchase of 51 Rodin sculptures). With a new hobby on his hands, Collector Mayer decided to turn it into a business, set up a network of buying agents and talent scouts. His goal: to exhibit "the best contemporary art from as many nations as create...
Lennie was sickly, had an asthmatic allergy (to cats and dust). He recalls: "I was a miserable, terrified little child." When he was eight, Sam took him to the synagogue, and noticed that when the choir began to sing, Lennie was so moved that he began to cry. As for the organ ? "It was the Mighty Wurlitzer itself to me." De spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted...