Word: level
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pull up its own socks, Colgate promptly invited an M.D. to give two public lectures, revised its required natural sciences course to put more emphasis on physiology of sex. But professors were inclined to agree with Walker, who said: "Sex education on the college level is closing the barn after the horse has run away . . . The job should be started in the grammar schools or earlier...
Ingeniously staged on two levels-living room below, bedrooms above-the play is consistently written at one level: get a laugh at any cost. Actually, if it showed a little more self-respect, it might be considerably more amusing...
...encourage this inquiring spirit, Dr. Ray joined with 56 "intellectually curious dentists" last week at Baileys Harbor, Wis., for a seminar on dental medicine above the grind-and-fill level. The main idea, says Dr. Ray, is that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position...
About half the 2,947,000 Catholic schoolchildren in the country go to parochial schools. In the last 20 years there has been a large and significant increase at the high-school level. In 1930 the Catholics taught 241,869 boys & girls between ninth and twelfth grade. The figure is now nearly 490,000-more than double. Last week the principal of Stepinac High, short, amiable Father Joseph C. Krug, explained why Catholics have striven so hard for this increase. Said...
...students, does offer everything, from manual training to a radio studio. When fully staffed, it will have 54 priests-more than the total number of ordained clergymen in many a U.S. Episcopal diocese. Each priest has a comfortable parlor-bedroom-&-bath of his own on the penthouse level of the school. On Sundays the priests will help out in Westchester parishes and get to know the parents of their pupils. The parents will also be invited to school functions, including the evening dances and roller-skating parties in the gym. "Westchester is a strong coeducational county," said Father Krug...