Word: fuess
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Claude M. Fuess decided to interrupt his graduate studies at Columbia University to take a job in the English Department at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He meant to stay for only a year, but he stayed for 40, first as a teacher and later as headmaster. Last week, in the course of a mellow autobiography called Independent Schoolmaster (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), Claude Fuess told what makes a great teacher, by recalling some of the "Olympians" he has known...
...current Saturday Review, Claude Fuess, onetime headmaster of Andover, gives his own thumbnail history of education during the last 50 years. Main trends: "Liberation of the Curriculum; the Mania for Military Preparation; the Formations of Small Sections and of Fast and Slow Divisions; the Rediscovery of Interest as a Motive; the Apotheosis of the I.Q. ; the Glorification of the Aptitude Test; the Popular Demand for Individual Attention; the Rise and Decline of Progressive Education; the Cumulative Menace of the Movies, Radio and Television; the Falling off in Voluntary Reading; the Multiplication of Records; and finally, the Training for Citizenship...
...Recalling his days as headmaster of Andover in the September Atlantic Monthly, Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with peas) had some tales to tell of visiting clergymen and their sermons: "The patience of a schoolboy congregation is often sorely tried. One winter three successive clergymen took as their theme the parable of the Prodigal Son. Again, three visiting clergymen in a row ended their sermons with a stereotyped quotation from Sir Henry Newbolt, beginning, 'There's a breathless hush in the close tonight,' and concluding dramatically, 'Play up! play up! and play the game...
...half century some 2,000,000 would-be collegians have suffered their way through the board's tests. By last week, when the College Entrance Examination Board celebrated its 50th anniversary and published its official history (The College Board: Its First Fifty^ Years, by Claude M. Fuess, Columbia University Press; $2.75), it had achieved an influence in U.S. education far greater than most Americans outside the teaching profession realized...