Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...application form for membership in the International Arthur Murray Lifetime Club. Keyed to worldwide expansion of studios, the application is designed to reduce the risk of suits. It asks students if they "enjoy exchange lessons," i.e., dancing with other than their regular instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without going to court: one involved a wealthy West Coast widow, a triple lifetimer, who tried to date...
...District school boards must refer all Negro applications for white schools to a three-man state pupil-placement board, which can reject them on any basis except color. ("We had to figure out a defense that was based on anything but race," Lindsay Almond once explained. "You see, that would be going against the Supreme Court decision.") The pupil-placement law has already been swept aside in some federal court districts...
...sense, he has a running start on Eisenhower as far as the 1958 congressional campaign is concerned: the principal point of his Politics, Presidents and Coattails, published in 1952, was that a President cannot easily transfer his popularity to congressional candidates. Proved by sad experience, it is Pupil Eisenhower's campaign problem...
...legs by such tricks as running through ankle-deep sand and sprinting up and down an 80-ft. sand dune 40 times a day or more. To give Elliott the energy to run 25 miles a day, Cerutty stoked him with oats, nuts and fruits. He urged his pupil to "thrust against pain and be contemptuous...
Even if an English teacher has a gift for his profession and a proper grounding in it, there is no certainty that his classes will get the training they should have. Instructors who must teach writing report daily pupil loads of up to 225; at one theme a week and a skimpy five minutes' grading time for each theme, this situation adds a killing 18 hours to their work week. Tuttle's and the council's recommendation: daily loads of not more than 100 students. Without charge, English Teacher Tuttle throws in some advice to school boards...