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...student but soon drifted toward the theater. A year younger than Mike, Elaine was equally adrift when they met in 1955. Born in Philadelphia, the daughter of the late Yiddish Actor Jack Berlin, she has seen the inside of more high schools around the country than James B. Conant, was married and divorced in her teens (she has a ten-year-old daughter). Together, Mike and Elaine took up with a Chicago campus theatrical group that later became the Compass Players (TIME, March 21), soon began to develop a professional rapport so close that they now have more or less...
...historic study of the U.S. high school, James B. Conant spent one year inspecting 55 schools in 18 states to see if they were teaching what he believed they should be teaching. How well they taught is another matter. Last week a canny faultfinder was being tuned up by Nashville's George Peabody College for Teachers. The device: an IBM computer. Peabody believes the computer can spot the weaknesses of any school system, perhaps faster than Conant...
With New York's distinguished Judge Learned Hand as honorary chairman, the Committee for Effective Use of the International Court includes Educator James B. Conant, former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, Dean of Harvard Law School Erwin N. Griswold, Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman John J. McCloy. "We have a choice between timidity and accepting the responsibility of world leadership," said Chairman Robert Dechert, former Defense Department counsel. "As it stands now, the fundamental evil of the Reservation is that it has provided an excuse for saying that not even...
...convocation in Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow will open the 85th session of the school. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, and Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education. Emeritus, will speak at the annual gathering, representing the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Faculty of Education. Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of the Summer School, will introduce the two professors...
...James B. Conant, president emeritus of Harvard, gave the first public report on his current study of U.S. junior high schools. Conant praised efforts to departmentalize the eighth grade (with four specialized teachers per class instead of one), but warned that "drastic revisions may be in order in many schools." Among them: a longer school day, a possible end to small schools. Then Conant loosed a blast. In his study so far (125 junior high schools in 17 states), he has found "an almost vicious overemphasis on athletics." Said Conant: "Colleges, of course, are by and large the worst sinners...