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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magna cum laude for your article on the New York City public schools. It is an intelligent and moving insight into the tortuous process of adapting education from its aristocratic traditions into an instrument of service to a democracy . . . By faith, the public schools are trying to move cultural mountains . . . Some of the trigger-happy your critics article, should be and then required to take ' do a homework on postgraduate course at the feet of Principal [Margaret] Douglas and other devoted members of the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

After graduating from Harvard in 1937 with a cum laude Bacehlor of Science degree, Cohen stepped along the usual educational trail with a brief detour to the research department of Carnegie Institute in Washington. The war interrupted his work and called him back to Harvard to instruct physics in the accelerated Army and Navy programs. Finding time to do the necessary work for his doctoral degree, he received an Assistant Professorship in 1947. Last year he advanced to an Associate Professor...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Scientific Showman | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

After three weeks, students begin to drill from tape recordings by themselves. In class, Sweet goes on with the slides, adding more case endings and turning to prepositions. "Puer ignem ramo facit," says Sweet, showing a boy making a fire with a branch. "Puer ignem cum fratre facit," he says, showing a boy and his brother lighting a fire. "Quis facit?" he asks. "Puer," says the class. "Quid puer facit?" "Ignem." "Quomodo facit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hot Latin | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Ramo." "Cum quo facit?" "Cum fratre." Just how far his method can be carried, Rebel Sweet himself does not know. But after years of crusading, he is sure of one thing: "I used to think that I wouldn't be able to find many people to talk Latin with. But I need not have worried. Everywhere I go, Latin is a hot subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hot Latin | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Thirty-one seniors will receive magna cum laude degrees, and Radcliffe president Wilbur K. Jordan will award 71 master of arts degrees, 34 master of arts degrees in teaching, and 17 doctor of philosophy degrees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symington to Address 'Cliffe Commencement | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

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