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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Scot in the Sixth Grade | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

University Police Chief Matthew J. Toohey disclosed yesterday that two books belonging to another student in Thayer had been stolen a few minutes earlier and then were left in Room 23. "It looks like a plant to me," Toohy said. "I doubt very much if the thief was a student of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So. Thayer Room Burglarized; Loss Estimated at $200 | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

...HUERA head further revealed that Matthew J. McGrath, president of the AFL affiliated Building Service Employees International Union, had mailed form letters and petition cards to all University maids, janitors, and engineers, asking for an election between the HUERA...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: AFL Launches Drive for University's Employees | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

That moved West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew Neely to remark that Gillette "in effect, told us to go to the birds." The success of this retort inspired Neely to still further heights. He suggested that the Senate borrow from the late Humorist Stephen Leacock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cats, Cows, Pigeons, Fleas | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...MATTHEW CHINENYE NDUKA Iowa Wesleyan College Mount Pleasant, Iowa

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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