Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By way of pressing his crusade into Capitol Hill, the President breakfasted (cantaloupe, scrambled eggs and bacon, kippered herring, toast, coffee) with 15 Republican Congressmen. When the small talk amid the table clatter was over, Ike got his serious business off his chest. "These," said he, "are four simple musts...
All of this indicates one general characteristic of a small private school: the large amount of faculty attention lavished--for better or worse on all students. With a school of 194 it is still possible for the faculty to discuss every individual student in the faculty meetings following each set...
It is very doubtful that this principal--head of one of the best schools in educationally-praised Westchester County, N.Y., really believed in this dichotomy of upbringing; certainly in her own school, which, many parents believed, was run by the PTA, she did not practice it. But her remark indicates...
The fact is that the only reason for this concern with improving American education has come out of a threat to our survival. Without this, the problem of increased intellectual activity for its own sake would not be a very pressing problem, nor would anything else, for that matter.
If these were the portentous events during '58's tenure, they were certainly not the only ones to create serious interest. Perhaps the first weighty matter that seemed pressing when this year's seniors came to Cambridge was the question of academic freedom and national security.