Word: ingraham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Institute of Education will give grants to Radcliffe's Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute to provide ten full fellowships over the next two years, Marion Kilson, director of the institute, said yesterday...
...Bunting Institute, formerly the Institute for Independent Study, was renamed in honor of Mary Ingraham Bunting, former president of Radcliffe, on September 16 at the Radcliffe Centennial celebrations. Bunting founded the institute...
...youngsters learned quickly and, with the handful of blue-chip upperclassmen anchoring a green team, Akers' prodigies became a scourge, ranking in the nation's top five in fewest points allowed and in total points scored. Says Senior Guard Rick Ingraham: "Things were different with Coach Akers and his staff-just the electricity they were generating. I can't remember being so enthused to go out and play...
...case involved the 1970 punishment of a Bade County, Florida junior high school student named James Ingraham, then age 14. His offense: lingering too long in the auditorium after a school assembly. As the boy told it, two school officials held him down while Principal Willie J. Wright whacked him more than 20 times with a 2-ft.-long wooden paddle. The resulting blood clots on his buttocks kept him in bed for a week. The boy's mother filed suit against the principal and other school officials. The plaintiffs charged that many students had been paddled-for offenses...
...Ingraham himself has since run afoul of the law and is currently serving a one-year jail term for resisting arrest. His case will scarcely end the centuries-old debate over whether sense can-or should-be beaten into schoolchildren. Despite psychiatric evidence that the practice is harmful and ineffective, advocates of the paddle see it as a simple instrument of law and order, and some of them swear by Proverbs 23: 14 -"Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." Where local laws and customs do not prohibit paddling, misbehaving students will continue...