Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses," which hold between 25 and 30 students, has quarters for a married master and at least one other instructor. The master, a senior faculty member, also acts as an advisor to the students in his dormitory. This task involves at least one conference every two weeks to discuss bi-weekly grade reports. But the master's job involves much more--seeing that the younger students are in bed on time, collecting the required Sunday night letters to families, quieting disturbances, and occasionally having parties...
...this indicates one general characteristic of a small private school: the large amount of faculty attention lavished--for better or worse on all students. With a school of 194 it is still possible for the faculty to discuss every individual student in the faculty meetings following each set of exams. And in bi-weekly meetings the faculty, with two-week grades at hand, can discuss the most pressing problems at length. Not all students need, or want, or appreciate such close attention, but for many it is the most important service a private school can offer...
...tentative acceptance of President Eisenhower's offer of joint technical studies on the feasibility of stopping nuclear tests. President Eisenhower sped off a "Dear Mr. Chairman" letter to the Kremlin's Khrushchev, proposed that delegations of Western and Communist scientists meet in Geneva next month to discuss ways and means of detecting nuclear explosions. The scientists should aim for an initial progress report in 30 days, a final report in 60 days, wrote Ike, and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should keep the U.N. fully informed of progress. Then the President nominated three topflight U.S. scientists to represent...
...ignorance. But at Geneva, they were magpie-ready to talk. Aerodynamic Expert Gunther Bock, one of the German scientists taken to Russia after the war, went home to report that "in branches of science where Marxism-Leninism is not directly applicable, there is no feeling of oppression. I could discuss my field with no sense of being in Russia or America or Brazil." Adds U.S. Meteorologist Gordon D. Cartwright, who recently spent some 18 months on a Russian scientific expedition to the Antarctic: "These were unique people-warm, friendly and full of fun." Politics almost never raised its unscientific head...
...threw the city into blackout paralysis; of a heart attack; in Miami. Boyle was nicknamed for his tactful method of collecting bribes; in Johnson's saloon, his unofficial headquarters on West Madison Street, he would hang his big cotton bumbershoot on the edge of the bar, discuss terms with "clients," disappear while they slipped the cash into the umbrella. One reported result: when the law wanted to know how he had managed to save $350,000 in eight years on his $50-a-week salary, Umbrella Mike replied, "With great thrift...