Word: markhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more they observed him during his first months on the job as night janitor in 1951, the more the pupils and teachers of the Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...
Since then he has spent his mornings studying and attending classes, this term began practice-teaching at Edwin Markham. He went to college last summer, for two years worked weekends at a service station to help meet his new expenses. But by 2 p.m. each weekday, he was once again in his khaki shirt and pants, sweeping, cleaning and polishing as if he had nothing more on his mind than being the best janitor Edwin Markham ever...
...Edwin Markham The Man With...
Many faculty members, past and present, are mentioned for their "collectivist" views. These include former Communists like Richard Gorham Davis, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Granville Hicks '23, Helen Deane Markham, Leon J. Kamin '49--no longer associated with the University--and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, are classified as "fellow travelers" by Root...
...Stan and even Amy play the losing game with stubborn dignity, unlike their children. Author White is overfond of the eye-stopping metaphor ("She was brushed in sad gusts by the branches of the music"), but at his best, he makes long-suffering Stan at least as poignant as Markham's Man with the Hoe. Stan's mute wisdom is in knowing that endurance is all. Author White's literary unwisdom is in worrying this theme for so long that his novel itself becomes a kind of endurance test...