Word: hoping
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...layman thus assumes an immensely significant role in the specialized profession of public education. In these days of thoughtful second looks at American education, one may hope that parents will realize their role with greater seriousness, and that the schools, which so desperately rely for their survival on the good will of the community, learn how to co-operate with parents and sacrifice nothing from their students' educational experience. When this is achieved in a significant number of American public schools, an immense step will have been made toward the goals which the separate portions of the community desire...
Academically, Putney is prevented from any major experimentation by the increasing demands of preparing for, and getting into college. In the hope that work will be done for its own sake, rather than because of competitive ambitions, marks are kept only for college records, and are not revealed to the student, who is only told if he is failing or non-certifying; written reports are given three times a year. This system does eliminate personal competition, but students are perfectly aware that they are being marked, and that college depends upon those marks...
Bringing greetings from the University, Dean Bundy said that the "sacrifice, which will be limited we hope," of serving the Armed Forces is "relevant" to the education offered at Harvard. Charles A. Coolidge, Senior Fellow of Harvard University, praised the high quality of military leadership and concluded that "thoughtful action in the true sense implies moral rightness" and is "the basis of leadership...
...There Is Hope...
...lower than those in most other sections of the country. There are relatively poor facilities, teachers, and students for various reasons. Yet it is evident that the South is not doomed to eternal backwardness in scholastic achievements. Improvement is the battle cry, and one can not help but hope that a better school system will arise and drown the cries for no schools at all if they have to be integrated, or for a ridiculous private school system now existing as laws in Georgia and Virginia. There is a deep desire for improvement in the South, though the rate...