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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard medley relay--Won by Harvard: Murray, Stanley, Hammond, and Mischner; second, Army: Kirk, Mathews, Robinson, and Bullock. Time--3:57.9. (Breaks Harvard and pool record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Defeat Army | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...yard backstroke--Won by Kirk (A); second, Pildner (H); third, Jjung (A). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Defeat Army | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...Laski ("My father wanted me to see both sides of the street''), majored in international relations at Harvard. During his junior year Jack went to Europe under the auspices of Ambassador Joe Kennedy, and in Berlin one night in 1939, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Alex Kirk gave him a message to take to his father: world war would erupt within a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

General stiffening of curriculum seems a more practical suggestion. "Too many people turn away from science and engineering in college because they feel so unprepared in math and basic science," Grayson Kirk observed. "Given opportunities for choice, children may take easier subjects...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Science Education | 11/27/1957 | See Source »

...group of Albuquerque science teachers, "generally fail to counsel their children on school courses, and they have a get-by philosophy of their own. The elder generation wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many a bright student finds only boredom in a class where the intellectual level is pitched to the duller students. Many will even conceal their capacities and knowledge because . . . they are intimidated by the anti-intellectualism that dominates so many classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Change the Thinking | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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