Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conquest of Everest (Countryman Films; United Artists) is a film record, in full color, of the 1953 expedition led by Colonel (now Sir) John Hunt of the British army, which succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002 ft.). The film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur...
...long wait. Sherpas sit brown and still as little Buddhas in the snow; the white men crack sharp glances at the heights; the bold English head of Colonel Hunt, snow-grizzled and weary, turns upward. Eleven hours later, the two are back. They have made the south summit; beyond, it was too rough. A camp is now established by Hillary. Tenzing and George Lowe at 27,900 ft. They spend the night there, and next day Hillary and Tenzing, the second assault team, try for the victory. Again the waiting at the lower camp, longer than before. Suddenly three figures...
...Harold C. Hunt, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, took issue with Griswold's statement that secondary schools turn out students so poorly prepared for college that "the whole fabric of higher education becomes a bridge built upon rotten pilings...
...Hunt, Superintendent of Schools in Chicago for six years, and a professed defender of public school education, said, "Mr. Griswold and others think of the standards of another day and times. In 1900 there were 600,000 boys and girls in the high schools of the nation. This fall, there are seven million, a 12-fold increase, while the population has doubled...
...Hunt conceded that students may spell and write poorly, but he says that they have been exposed to much more--TV, radio, cars--than 50 years ago. "They have sacrificed some of the perfections," he said, "but in poise, assurance, personalities adjusted to reality, young people are far better equipped...