Word: educationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BUREAUCRACY The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.) " 'What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done?' " intoned a worried cranberry merchant in Washington last week, taking Isaiah (5:4) for his text. Bible-quoting George C. P. Olson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the...
Since the days of the French Revolution, when fanatics proclaimed that they had dethroned God and placed Reason on the ramparts of heaven, Frenchmen have struggled over the deathbeds of famous men. Stories, some apocryphal and some authenticated, tell of the last moments of such famed skeptics as Aristide Briand...
The Mines. Sam Huff knows the value of a dollar. He was born in 1934 in a West Virginia mining camp called Edna Gas that was caught tight in the squeeze of the Depression. Sam and his five brothers and sisters spent their early years in one of a row...
The loan program, one of the glories of last year's National Defense Education Act, encourages needy potential schoolteachers and superior students of science and language. This year the Government is lending $30 million to 1,365 schools (which add $1 for every $9 of U.S. money) to aid...
From the start, four schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, Swarthmore -refused to join the program because of the affidavit. Later, nine more-Amherst, Antioch, Bennington, Goucher, Grinnell, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's (Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law...