Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stare stonily ahead whenever nonmembers ask them what their societies do. If the questioner persists,* members of such societies as Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key and Berzelius are expected to leave the room. Such behavior has sometimes led irreverent outsiders to suspect that the societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional tap day each spring. To be one of the 15 men elected...
...well-informed upperclassmen, Jackson's choice was no surprise. It had been rumored for several days that he would "go" Berzelius,* along with his teammates Fullback Ford Nadherny and Ends Lawrence McQuade and John Setear. Levi himself said only, "I had to make one choice; I just chose Berzelius...
...first that his scheme would catch on as it did. Back in 1826, he and his friends were only a handful, but they were serious about the idea that the nation's new common schools belonged to the public and that the public should be concerned to make them better. They organized the American Lyceum to help set standards, soon had members all over the U.S. For more than a decade these members made speeches, wrote articles, held public meetings. They got results: better training for teachers, the formation of state and county school boards, a constant buzz...
...Manhattan, it will send out investigators for pilot studies of just what community groups are doing to improve their schools. It will also act as a clearinghouse for good & bad news about U.S. public education, citing local groups for a good job wherever possible, and spotlighting problem areas. To make sure that the commission stays above all special interests, it will accept only members "not professionally identified with education, religion, or politics." As the commission set up shop this week, it had $250,000 in grants from the Carnegie Corporation and the General Education Board to help it along...
Damned Embarrassing. Last week the Captain found out just how grateful his students were. They had come by the scores from all over California to attend a dinner to mark his retirement from teaching. The Captain was quick to make it clear that he wasn't saying goodbye for good: he hoped still to go on living...