Word: educationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson's public services during his Waggoner years extended far beyond Vernon. He served as deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, as chairman of the statewide board of education. In 1951 he sat on a commission set up by the president of Columbia University, Dwight David...
"Why," asked New England Missionary John Eliot in 1647, "are Strawberries sweet and Cranberries sowre?" The reason in those days was that cranberries needed sugar. But progress took care of that, and the cranberry has since nourished into a $45 million-a-year business, graced Thanksgiving tables in sauces and...
Gin & the Spirit of God. Evangelist Bhengu is the grandson of a Zulu chief. His father became an evangelist at the Lutheran Mission station at Eshowe, Zululand, and young Nicholas went to school there, then to the Roman Catholic Institute at Eshowe for his secondary education, finally to a missionary...
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller yesterday declared that neither the loyalty oath nor the disclaimer affidavit provisions of the National Defense Education Act infringe on student rights.
But even success will only solve this problem for biology. The rest of Natural Science, which demands a background in mathematics and an extremely special set of talents, remains General Education's greatest headache.