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...school system demands some prompt, effective help," President Eisenhower announced in February, 1953, and the nation's educators promptly chalked up an "A" for homework well-done. But the new administration evidently forgot its important assignment, for now, nearly three years later, the critical need for elementary and secondary school buildings and teachers remains almost totally ignored. Classroom and teacher shortages still force over 700,000 students to attend school only half-day, and 6 million children study, in fire-traps. The picture is not pleasant. The need for more schools and teachers has brought from the White House...
...that, Frank's errancy consisted mostly of pranks-he released a couple of pigeons in the school auditorium during assembly, sometimes took a cat into a movie house and shot it in the hindquarters with a BB pistol to make a commotion. "School was very uninteresting," he remembers. "Homework . . . we never bothered with . . ." In his last year in high school he was expelled, he says, on grounds of general rowdiness...
Reuther, who likes woodworking, remodeled the house himself. He helps Linda with her homework after dinner or on weekends. Last weekend he stayed in town for the Ford negotiations and did not get home at all. When Linda heard of the G.M. negotiations this weekend, she cried: "Daddy, you got to come home-I have a test on Monday...
...final examination in a course on Techniques of Plant Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin. The ego-inflating article strongly implied that there was little need to study for the exam. The exam was flunked. The other, after reading the article, came to a similar conclusion regarding a homework assignment in Quantum Mechanics at the U. of I. At the present writing, the assignment has not even been begun...
...down happily and their 'doll marriages' are touchingly beautiful." Reported one of the young mothers, 19, preoccupied with both schoolbooks and a six-month-old boy: "Since the baby arrived, my husband and I have had no free time and have been forced to do all our homework at night. Marriage, pregnancy and diaper-changing cannot be combined with schoolwork. We regard the Scripture teacher as a fine and cultured person, but we definitely oppose his moral view. It belongs to another age." Both she and her husband, reported the girl, have decided to keep on studying. Their...