Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newly-formed Commission on English of the College Entrance Examination Board finished its first series of meetings here Monday. Its Chairman, Harold C. Martin, Chairman of the Committee on General Education A, said the Commission, composed of university and secondary school teachers, discussed ways to find out what the quality of English instruction in American secondary schools is, and what improvements must be made...
...Martin described the group as "a response to public discontent with the quality of high school English teaching." The member colleges and schools of the C.E.E.B. have also become increasingly dissatisfied with the results of English instruction, he explained. Martin cautioned, however, "There is no proof, only a general impression, that students today read and write worse than students of 25 years...
...Martin emphasized that the Commission "does not want to impose a standard college preparatory curriculum on the U.S. high school...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The irresistible force of political pressures meets what should be an immovable object: a scrupulously honest man. The Hidden Image stars Franchot Tone, Martin Gabel, Nancy Marchand and George Grizzard...
...worked hard as hell and didn't get much for it," sighed Coach Ben Martin, an old Army foe from his days as a Navy letterman (class of '45). But his underdog team had made an auspicious beginning for the threeway, interservice rivalry that could become the most engrossing in college football...