Word: classe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were a very young married woman starting life . . ." said Mrs. Winston Churchill to the graduating class of the National Institute of Houseworkers, "I think I should try to pass the examination myself. I should feel embarrassed working together [with you] if I was doing everything badly, or if I did not know how to iron a child's frock...
Tacks & Taxes. How much longer such schools as Winchester could keep sailing, without at least changing their traditional tack, was the question. It costs ?276 a year for Britain's heavily taxed middle-and upper-class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...
...from the state schools are going to crash the hallowed gates of the public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part of the school as its rich educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change), and the 400-odd "commoners," whose families pay the full fee to make the lads both...
...Southern California's civic confidence, the Los Angeles school threw open its doors to its first law students. Chosen from more than 400 applicants, the 54 pioneers will spend their first year in classrooms borrowed from U.C.L.A.'s liberal-arts school; next year, with an expected entering class of 200, they will have a $1,600,000 building of their own. Eventually, enrollment is expected...
...Translator. The man who has at last brought Cervantes' masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...