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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edwin G. Nourse. Too bad that more important people do not share his alarming insight and perspective regarding the present state of affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

TIME'S statement that John Dewey's progressive education has led to an emphasis on creative thinking in our public schools is suffering from too great a desire to make his birthday happy. His ideas have led to the very opposite. The present American high-school student is an intellectual dolt who thinks that knowledge is gained through memorizing facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Kelly, widow of a city court judge and mother of two teenagers, had served as a Democratic legislative analyst at Albany, will be the ninth woman in the present House. She based her ten-point platform on the Fair Deal, urged full aid to Israel and, in passing, thumpingly approved the Brooklyn Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Shoo-ins | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...game. Both teams have miserable records, Yale winning three times in seven starts, and Harvard winning but once in eight tries. And yet it is the game which makes or breaks a season; for the side that wins, all is forgiven. This is why 60,000 patrons will be present...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Struggles to Redeem Season Today in 66th Encounter with Yale | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

While some opinion sees heads of various preparatory schools around New England as possible choices, practically only one present university officer is mentioned as a logical candidate: Morris Hadley Y '16, member of the corporation and a New York corporation lawyer...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Yale Hunts Successor to Retiring President; Tafts Being Considered | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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