Word: edu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ostensible tribute to National Edu cation Week. Pogo began sounding off fortnight ago on a subject of extreme sen sitivity to Kelly's fourscore clients in the South: school integration. "Some places 'round here," observed Pogo to a butter fly pal, "education is perty well finished." This observation was too much for John H. Colburn. managing editor of the Rich mond, Va. Times-Dispatch. He ordered the offending Pogoism routed out of the strip...
World in Color. But the NBC president had serious matters to discuss. He an nounced that next year NBC will produce, three times a week for 26 weeks, instructional programs in mathematics, the humanities and government, and feed them live-and free-to the nation's 22 edu cational TV stations. The programs will be kinescoped for repeat telecasts or classroom use. In producing them (cost: $300,000), NBC will work with leading educators and the Educational Television and Radio Center at Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Cross. Mas sachusetts' Governor Christian Herter de manded an apology to Worcester. Fund officials in all three cities acknowledged that they had turned only token sums over to the Red Cross. But they pointed out that the special funds went toward replacing losses suffered in the storm, edu cation of orphans, patching roofs...
...hammered the bill through with the slogan: "Education is the spearhead of social reform." Its passage in 1944 gave him senior status in the party, and Cabinet rank as the first Minister of Edu cation. But the "Butler Act" did more. In the public's view, Rab's name no longer stood for a man of Munich, but for a leader of social reform. When the time came, Butler was the logical choice as the spokesman for the new progressive Toryism...
...reach down through western culture to ancient Greece . . . The founders' respect for learning speaks for itself: the scholar rubs elbows with the moralist. Both share the natural piety, the simple moral earnestness that for all our shortcomings has pervaded our culture and extended the aims of American higher edu cation beyond the mere cultivation of the intellect to the preparation for life in a free society and the discovery and fulfillment of man's ultimate purpose on the universe. These aims are well represented here today by an honorable company of colleges and universities sharing with...