Word: cunningham
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What is purportedly the finest Moosehead ever to have come out of the State of Maine has been presented to the Athletic Association by Bill Cunningham, sports columnist of the Boston Post...
...last 33½ years jolly, auburn-haired Mrs. Marguerite S. Cunningham, 51, has taught in New York City's grade schools. She is a popular teacher, but her record is not unblemished. She has been absent from class 1,556 days, tardy 724 times. A big woman (5 ft. n, 275 lb.), she suffers from high blood pressure (see p. 72), walks with a cane...
Fortnight ago Board of Education President James Marshall used Teacher Cunningham's record as a case in point. Pending before the State Legislature was a bill which would empower his board to retire teachers found physically or mentally unfit. Informed that Mrs. Cunningham was a fine teacher despite her record, he retorted: "A person who cannot walk or put on her coat is a fire hazard...
Last week school officials put Mr. Marshall's assumption to a test, called a special fire drill at Teacher Cunningham's school. Her pupils were a block away before she had even reached the exit. Decision: She was undoubtedly a fire hazard...
Bingham went on to describe the general trend in Harvard athletics, and landed the Harvard system which he said gave equal opportunities to the Varsity athlete and the intramural competitor. Cunningham branded Bingham's attitude as much too idealistic...