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...taking them away from more worthwhile pursuits. (The average weekly time spent in viewing TV was 27 hours for students with home sets, according to a recent survey in Stamford, Conn.) These pursuits include homework, which suffers from TV competition, although some students report that they utilize advertisements and dull parts of the broadcasts for studying...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

...trimming one hour from their children's daily televiewing, parents in Clifton, N.J. last week received thank-you notes from Charles M. Sheehan, elementary-school principal. Sheehan had protested two months ago that TV was interfering with homework (TIME, Dec. 19). Now he reported happily that failures in one class had been reduced from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Curfew | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

David Stowe, 39, is a Steelman protégé, born in Connecticut, a former schoolteacher and the son of a schoolteacher. He does the President's homework on the specific problems of the National Security Resources Board, planning the economic moves to be made in event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tick, Tock | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Homework. In Sidney, Neb., Merle E. Faulkner explained to police how he happened to be carrying an uprooted parking meter on his shoulder: he had been having a little trouble pilfering its hoard and had decided to work on it at his leisure elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

When Political Scientist Benjamin Fletcher Wright of Harvard University was appointed president of Smith College (TIME, March 21), he had a reservation: he was afraid he did not know enough about women's education. "I've got to do some homework," said he. Last week at his inauguration (which coincided with Smith's 75th anniversary celebration), President Wright showed how far his homework had taken him. He jumped right into the biggest question of all: What should women be educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What For? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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