Word: drayton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's educators as a whole, formally condemned the 8-4 plan, recommended 6-4-4 as a design for U. S. public education. The group was the National Education Association's Educational Policies Commission. The report* was written by fat-jowled. conservative Professor George Drayton Strayer of Columbia's Teachers College. Prime argument for this plan, which has long been championed by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, is economic: it neatly disposes of the generation of youths between 16 and 20, who once went to work but today are at loose-ends...
...recommendations of the President's Advisory Committee on Education (TIME, March 7). Because it would permit Federal money to be used for books, bus service and scholarships for pupils in parochial (e.g., Roman Catholic) schools, it is opposed by Catholicophobes, led by Columbia University's Professor George Drayton Strayer. Meanwhile, to drive the bill out of the hostile House committee, the American Federation of Teachers and Progressive Education Association held a national conference in Washington, brought together college presidents, educators, Congressmen and 25 labor and farm organizations, which unanimously endorsed the bill. United in demanding its passage were...
...pointed as an example to New Haven, Conn., where two public schools are staffed by nuns.* Eight hundred adherents of the left-wing "Social Frontier" group demanded that Federal aid be restricted to public schools. Before the Association's legislative committee, up rose conservative, heavy-jowled Dr. George Drayton Strayer, of Columbia University's Teachers College, to cry: "Let's not have any church- Catholic, Protestant or Jewish-using public money to make propaganda for any policy or belief peculiar to itself. . . . Keep the public schools public." From New York University's soft-spoken Dean...
...pupils and six tutors to Coconut Grove, Fla. Swank Adirondack-Florida specializes in outdoor life, provides canoes in the Adirondacks, a beach and 35-ft. cruising sloop in Florida. Tuition is $1,500 plus extras. Enrolled there this year are George Nichols, grandson of J. P. Morgan, and Drayton Phillips, son of William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Rome. Alumni include Leonard and Raymond Firestone, George Vanderbilt, three sons of Hiram Bingham, two sons of bridge-building Roeblings...
...Within two years he had won such esteem in the Department that he was sent to London as first Secretary of the Embassy, a doubly important post because Ambassador Whitelaw Reid was in very poor health. It was during that period that he married Caroline Astor Drayton. Mrs. Phillips is a descendant of the Draytons whose name means as much in the history of Charleston, S. C. as her husband's does in Boston. In 1912 at the ripe age of 34, William Phillips retired to become regent of the college and Secretary of the Corporation of Harvard. Short...