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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spokane's Gonzaga University opened its new library, a glittering campus showplace for which sentimental old Non-Grad Bing Crosby (class of '26) donated $615,000. The library, which has 153,000 books, is also outfitted with a special Crosbyana Room. It has wall-to-wall carpeting and glass showcases for Bing's Oscar (for Going My Way in 1944), photographs, citations, old scrapbooks and the 20 gold platters for recordings that sold more than a million copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...enroll about fifteen people," Lawson said. "I've always wanted to work with a small group painting and sculpting--I'm a sculptor myself. We had about a dozen summer school people during the summer. A few are still here--mostly Radcliffe girls. Yes, there are some Harvard men. Grad students, though. I have a German exchange student, a Japanese and a Chinese boy--more from outside than inside the country, actually...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Ars Pro ... | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

Funny & Serious. Impetus for the series came from the late Texas Publisher-Philanthropist Clyde E. Palmer, a loyal McGuffey old grad. The Palmer Foundation is underwriting $200,000 of the capital costs of the series, gets in return a 4% royalty. American Book started the series in 1956 with readers for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, this summer brought out books for the first three grades. In 1959: volumes for seventh-and eighth-graders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Modern McGuffey | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College of Oxford, told a gathering of grad school alumni yesterday that American undergraduates, compared with continental undergraduates, were "intellectually immature and underdeveloped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodhart Scores U.S. Education Before Graduate School Alumni | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

College administrators and grad school admissions officers say that they are satisfied with grades as forecasters, though they readily admit that a personal appraisal is superior, when they personally know the candidates for some award. But the idiosyncrasies of far-flung deans limit the wide application of such an approach...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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