Word: hinton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mrs. Carmelita Hinton founded the Putney School in 1935, she was attempting to utilize in education some of John Dewey's ideas, particularly those concerning the interaction of community and individual life. Putney has always been conscious of itself as a community and has striven to be an ideal community. The values of the individual are instilled, not by personal coercion, but by the example of the community. The values, it is hoped, will last after the individual has left Putney, so that he can be in a position to improve the quality of his new environment...
...Hinton had no new philosophy of life which she hoped to indoctrinate into the students. Putney was to be a college preparatory school which was "progressive" only insofar as it was willing to experiment, to try out new techniques and methods of education. Some of these represented a radical departure from the traditional New England Academies, particularly the novelty of co-education in a boarding school (which had actually existed for some time in the Friends' schools the school were those for which "civilized men" had worked "for centuries...
...boosters went out in the open market to buy their youngsters a coach who could train winners. For a $10,100 salary (the U.S. average for high school coaches: $6,500), plus handsome bonuses and a high-priced side job as a TV football commentator, the Eagles got Charles Hinton Moser Jr., 39, a solid Missourian who played center for the University of Missouri and ripped up opposing lines in the late 1930s. A deep-voiced, ingratiating joiner, Coach Moser shook hands, made friends, and built a team whose drawing power earned the money for a brand...
...last minute attempt to take the Committee's finances out of the red, the Jubilee group has decided to allow upper-classmen to attend its Friday night dance-concert. Among the performers at the Union event will be Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, and Milt Hinton...
...Hinton gave the ill girl a glass of water and called Allston Burr Senior Tutor Richard T. Gill, who was unable to find out the girls indentities or what they were doing in the House. University police, who had come at Gill's request to aid the sick girl, found the two uncooperative...