Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ober had insisted that Conant implement a policy the President had backed earlier in 1949 as a members of the National Education Association Committee: that communists should not teach. But, Clark said, the University did not intend to allow a witch hunt. Conant had already allowed the University News Office to state" . . . the report of the N.E.A. Committee dealt with judgments . . . and did not attempt to discuss legal or procedural aspects of the appointment and possible dismissal of teachers...
...office also revealed yesterday the results of a survey it made on what careers seniors intend to follow after graduation. The poll, which was made at spring registration, shows that law is the top choice of the class of '51, followed by medicine. Of 1,018 seniors who were asked, 753 returned their questionnaires, and 108 of the indicated that they wanted to be lawyers. Both professions rank ahead of manufacturing and production, which top the list of non-professional jobs...
Resigned Shrug. Equally memorable in TV's gallery was grey-haired, impeccable Joe Adonis, who needed only a highball to pose as a gentleman of distinction; pudgy Bookmaker Frank Erickson, who never got beyond the fourth grade ("I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might intend to criminate me"); Water Commissioner James J. Moran, a granite-jawed Irishman clearly following some elaborate, personal code of honor that the common run of mankind would never comprehend; and the virulent clash of words and wills between New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer and Senator Charles...
...Massachusetts state board has recommended that local boards defer college students on three bases, Feeney said. They must have completed their freshman year, be in the upper half of their class, and intend to continue their college career. He added that the local boards were not obligated to issue deferments for these reasons...
...campus at Winter Park, Fla. A recent executive of Chicago's camera-building Bell & Howell Co., Wagner (University of Chicago, '38) was full of ideas about using the new audio-visual teaching devices developed by the armed forces in World War II. Said he: "If our teachers intend to compete with movies, television and comic books, they will have to use the tools of our times...