Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters TEE (Traditional Education Experiment), pupils found themselves snapping to attention when teacher entered the room or called on them to recite. On the grounds girls curtsied, boys doffed hats or bowed for Teacher Ansley; in class, all set to work to cover in seven weeks the 485-page textbook that was supposed to last all year. Though the pupils clearly dislike the bowing, and being punished by time-consuming chores, they took to their new life with surprising enthusiasm. Classroom silence, they found, made paying attention a breeze; required note-taking and constant review made exams a snap. When...
...changes in emphasis of doctors' concern for young patients are illustrated by revisions for the new edition. There is a whole page for data about the eyes, from birth (was silver nitrate used, and if premature, was oxygen administered?) through developmental stages ("eyes move together to follow moving object") to examinations by an ophthalmologist. Need for this was established after it was found that far more children than had been realized were having eye trouble before the age of seven. There is a similar page for bones and postural development. Reflecting current concern about radiation, a section has been...
...emotional side the trend is toward lessening parental tension. Instead of a rigid schedule, which prescribed the exact numbers of hours of sleep a youngster must have from year to year, there is now a permissive page simply to record how he sleeps. A stern "Development of Character" page, with the injunction, "Children must be taught emotional control," has been dropped entirely...
From Caracas, the Houston Post's Reporter Jack Donahue last week sent his paper a penetrating series on a topic close to Texans: the precarious future of U.S. oil companies in post-revolutionary Venezuela. Hitting an even more sensitive nerve, the Post ran a Page One series by Staffer Leon Hale on Texas A. & M.'s deep-rooted schism over basic educational policies. Other staff-written stories in the bright, boldly laid-out Post last week ranged from Business Editor Sam Weiner's rundown on the recession's impact to Austin Correspondent Felton West...
With such alert, far-ranging news coverage and a thoughtful, middle-of-the-road Republican editorial page, the morning Post ("written and edited to merit your confidence") has won 65-statewide and national journalistic awards in the past five years, staked out a reputation as the Southwest's most readable daily. It has also seized the rank of Houston's No. I paper from the staunchly segregationist evening Chronicle, which in its dyspeptic distrust of Eisenhower Republicanism, the U.N., and U.S. allies often sounds like an oil-belt echo of the Chicago Tribune...