Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directed toward the reinforcement of intellectual standards within the "democratic" framework of the public schools. But as a practical matter, Mr. Conant surely recognizes the existence of strong adverse forces, ranging from simple financial and organizational difficulties to the pedagogists' lobby, which is currently in a position to impress its highly controversial theories on the schools as though they were revealed truth. The parent who wants to give his children the best available education, the college teacher who prefers students who have already taken a few steps toward literacy, and the man considering a career in secondary school teaching must...
...years. Open and forthright, he has consistently fought for his principles of education and academic freedom by hiring controversial people and by answering all attacks without sacrificing his beliefs. Surprisingly, many of his worst critics are Sarah Lawrence students, who feel that once Taylor's boyishness ceases to impress the hardened sophomore, she sees her president as "a big grin with nothing behind it." Others say that Taylor "is too informal." They would like to see him act the traditional role of a college president. These critics, however, constitute a small minority of the Sarah Lawrence population...
...moments (as when Oedipus first realizes that he has killed his father and married his mother) and the result is terrifying. Wesley Addy, beautifully narrating in English, made each section comprehensible; the Orchestra and Harvard Glee Club sounded positively fierce. As for the soloists, only Paul Tibbetts failed to impress me. Because he had to sing way below his normal baritone range, there were many times when his volume was woefully inadequate...
...play's plot concerns the death of an underprivileged girl. Each member of the family has something to do with the death, and the Inspector calls to impress upon them the graveness of their deeds...
...stand on football taken by the Ivy League presidents is more than a purity code to impress the scandal-conscious public. If carried out it will shake up the Ivy set-up more than it has been since the eight colleges realized ivy grew on all their walls. If this policy is followed, the eight institutions, which have been ambling off in different directions for years, will join in a formal Ivy League-emphasis on the League...