Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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States can best help local schools by rating them academically, James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus, stated last night in the annual Gustav Pollack Lecture on Government. But he warned against a rapid increase of the use of state power as a means of improving schools...
Conant said that a state "academic inventory" would "furnish the facts upon which parental action at the local level will be based." He counted on knowledge of the schools' quality to stimulate local pride and inter-city competition...
State minimum requirements cannot insure that able students are "sufficiently encouraged to elect a broad, stiff program of academic subjects," he pointed out, adding that "At the local level, however, a good deal can be done by counselors and by the development of the proper spirit in the school and the community by the principal and superintendent...
...approved by the state, the sign would stop cars travelling north on Plympton St., between the Lampoon Building and the Gold Coast Valeteria. The DPW must approve all local traffic control measures...
Novelist Naipaul's leisurely plot is often too clotted with local color, and he rings too many changes on a basically simple theme. But his picture of Ganesh, the huckster Hindu, is the best job of its kind since Joyce Gary looked through the wambly brown eyes of Mister Johnson...