Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President also: Pace Jr., now General Dynamics Corp. president, who dropped by
the White House with four young, eager U.S. politicians (Young
Republicans' Chairman John Ashbrook and Treasurer Fred Dixon; Young
Democrats' President Nelson Lancione and First Vice President Richard
L. Crawford) who are on their way to a Paris convention next month.
Object: to bring future political leaders of the NATO countries face to
face while they are still in their intellectually formative years.
Beamed Ike: "Splendid idea."
Just before his fleet-footed protege, Herb Elliott, 20, stepped to the starting line for the mile run at California's Compton track meet last week, Aussie Coach Percy Cerutty bobbled his grey goatee with an expansive boast: "We will set too fast a pace for him and steam...
Thus, it is clear that all is not stagnate: progress is slowly being made in educational methods. In Georgia's DeKalb Country, the school board has begun breaking classes up into ability groups, enabling the poor student to set his own pace, and the good student to move ahead. Many schools direct their good students into college courses, offering analytic geometry to those able to undertake this advanced work. In addition, Ford Foundation grants have enabled some schools in Atlanta to offer elementary calculus and extensive studies in English literature and American history...
...object--a heightened academic pace--dovetailed closely with another way for Harvard to help solve the problem which would be created by increased pressure for college admissions. This was the view that saw the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--both the College and the Graduate School--as an upper-level teachers' college, a Ph.D. mill to supply the nation's college instructors...
This important alumni function figures in virtually every alumni affair as a low pressure undercurrent. McCord set the pace for the Program, the Alumni Association, and the Associated Harvard Clubs with this bit of whimsy, read at the New York Harvard's Day Program...