Word: manual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brands of Listening. According to the manual, a high-school social-studies class is just the place to take up such weighty matters as "sharing in making necessary repairs in the home" and "acquiring the realization that all lines of work have problems and responsibilities, as well as pleasures and rewards." If the student is expected to know much of anything about history aside from some fatuously chauvinistic scraps out of the American past, the manual does not say. Under the high-school section "Using Tools of Communication Effectively," Hildebrand counted 44 items on "listening," e.g., "listening to a telephone...
...Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program: A Guidebook of Living and Learning Experiences. In the six years it took to produce...
...Allston Burr Senior Tutor, said that he was very pleased with the "enthusiastic response" to this attempt to give the members of Dunster a chance to "create." He said that he hoped that the program could be expanded in the future into such fields as sculpture or even the manual arts so that everyone could at least have the opportunity to participate. Approximately ten per cent of the members of Dunster are now in the program...
Last but not least, Seniors are told the proper weight paper to use. This is a truly handy manual...
...infinitesimal part (less than .2%) of the population of Communist Poland, a wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping the country. Since the break with Russia last October and the relaxation of border regulations, more than 25,000 Jews have applied for passports to Israel. An exodus, including intellectuals, manual laborers and Communists, is in progress, reported New York Times Correspondent Sydney Gruson...