Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Dick was a bright student. He made his debating debut in the seventh grade on a boys' team upholding, against the girls, the affirmative of "Resolved, that insects are more beneficial than harmful." In characteristic fashion (he still does his own painstaking research on legislation and speeches), young Nixon went to an entomologist uncle and assembled a formidable body of benign facts about the insect world. The girls' team was routed...
Right from grade one the French believe in making schoolchildren work hard. At nine, a French child is already being stuffed with Chateaubriand and Rousseau; he parses sentences from Hugo and learns all about the Edict of Nantes. At 14, he must begin to dip (in English) into the works of Swift and Poe. By the time he gets to his "baccalaureat" exam, he must know his Tacitus and answer such questions as "What did P. A. Touchard mean when he said of Montaigne: 'Before everything and despite everything, Montaigne is alive...
...last week the city of La Plata (pop. 200,000) was renamed Eva Perón. So will be all the streets and plazas throughout the country which hitherto had borne the name of onetime President Bartolomé Mitre. So will one school in every district, and all first-grade schoolrooms in Buenos Aires Province. Many moppets henceforth will attend classes in the Eva Perón room of Eva Perón school of Eva Perón city...
...suffered an attack of meningococcic meningitis - an inflammation of the covering of the brain and spinal cord. The disease left her memory so clouded that she could remember almost nothing of her life. She had to start school all over again in Charlotte, N.C., beginning with the first grade, until finally she could remember enough to graduate from high school again (TIME, July...
...producer, took out an option and set up a subsidiary, the San Manuel Copper Corp., to explore the deposit. In the past seven years, Magma President Alexander J. McNab has spent $10 million on preliminary exploration and development, estimates that his mine contains half a billion tons of low-grade ore, biggest U.S. underground copper mine...