Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commissioner of Education Earl J. McGrath sighted "a specter in academic halls" that had nothing to do with Halloween. It was the specter "of another entire student body for every college and university." According to McGrath's figures, about 78% of the nation's fifth-grade students who are mentally qualified for college never get there. The result is that millions of U.S. citizens "go through life functioning below the level of their potential." His proposal: an annual $300 million federal aid program for college scholarships...
...good many people seemed to feel like ailing, white-haired J. S. Hancock, who had got up from his bed in Alexandria (La.) Veterans Administration Hospital, trekked more than 100 miles to attend. Said Hancock: "When I'm not feeling too keen I can think of these songs and feel better . . . You know a man that will sing these gospel songs...
...found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from the modern as New Caledonia is from the Mississippi...
...least two outspoken architects thought not. Complained Philadelphia's J. Roy Carroll Jr.: "The designs for the most part are pale copies of those executed after the first World War, with the usual classic pavilion, symmetrical stairways and Grecian urns." Architect George Daub agreed: "It should have been competitive...
...Government body long (24 years) headed by General John J. Pershing. His successor and present chairman: General George C. Marshall...