Word: prints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because we cannot hope to print as many as one million copies, we ask those lucky New Yorkers who get one of these copies to share them with friends. We can only ask that no one resell the CRIMSON at more than the printed price of five cents...
Parental indifference is a schoolteacher's traditional complaint, but Brookline educators cannot claim that the townspeople ignore them. Throughout the fall the Brookline schools have faced attacks for teaching children hand-printing instead of handwriting. The controversy has filled the P.T.A. agenda, rated banner headlines in the Brookline Chronicle, and inspired the Boston Globe to print a picture of three little girls whom it quoted saying wistfully: "We can read writing, but we can't write...
School Administrator Ernest J. Claverly, warming in defense of the non-cursive status quo, cited no less than ten reasons why printing was superior to handwriting for schoolchildren: "It takes less time to teach. It fosters skill in language by allowing easier language expression. It is more legible, and does not become sloppy as the writer becomes senile. It is less awkward for left-handed children. Most job application forms, in fact, say "please print clearly." Claverly maintained that unless some schools had been willing to violate tradition, the tyrannical master would still be holding forth in his red brick...
...fall of 1953 the CRIMSON editorially supported Adlai Stevenson for president. Although he was defeated approximately one year ago, the CRIMSON has been and still is fighting the Republican party--both editorially and on its selection and reporting of news items. A newspaper has the right to print anything it wishes on its editorial page: but when the reporting of the news becomes biased in favor of editorial policies, them the newspaper is guilty either of ignorance or mockery of its duties...
...Still in print, for those who want a good historical about 19th Century Russia: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy...