Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years at Yale, he taught thousands of students (12,035 by his own careful log) how to be seawise as naval architects, engineers and shipping-line executives. His classroom itself was a ship, with the Skipper forward on his bridge, pounding the deck until class was over and it was time for all hands to go ashore. Last week, at 64, the Skipper announced that he would soon set the telegraph for good at "Finished Engines," and retire. Without him, Yale thought, it would give no more courses in naval architecture and marine engineering...
Brigham Young did not live to see that copious pouring. The first classes of the University of Deseret were attended by 25 pioneers in a log cabin. The next year the university admitted a few shy young women clad in their Sunday best, thus became one of the first coeducational state universities in the country. But in 1852 the school had to close down from lack of funds; it did not reopen until 1867. Two years later, a scholarly non-Mormon gold prospector, Dr. John Rocky Park, became president and began to build what was to become the modern University...
...many of the recommendations there was little debate. Of the 30 articles passed on by the meeting, nineteen were voted unanimously, including a half million appropriation for general running expenses. On some of the others, the discussion was log and tortuous. Article 18, "To see if the Town will vote to purchase and erect a Town Flag pole...and provide for the payment thereof," drew considerable comment from patriots, economizers and wags. In the end, the meeting voted the article down. The voters had less to say about a subsequent proposal to grant the town police force a forty-hour...
...Pearson's column in nearby Louisville's Courier-Journal last month. Pearson's Washington "Merry-Go-Round" told a "shameful, shocking story" of thousands of juvenile delinquents who were being imprisoned with hardened criminals. As a horrible example, he cited Taylorsville's own "two-cell, log jail" where, he said, "a 13-year-old runaway boy was locked up . . . for four days with a screaming, laughing maniac...
...Refined? Education rolled off Mark Hopkins' log for good. It became a world of controversy-of Dewey's progressives who saw only limited good in the measurement movement (how, .they asked, could character be measured?), of the measurers who denounced the traditionalists ("I am," said Thorndike, "suspicious of educational achievements which are so subtle and refined and spiritual that they cannot be measured"), and the traditionalists who denounced them both...