Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cleared the rod at 6 ft. 8 in., then somersaulted over at 7 ft., half an inch over the record. As a topper, Browning cleared 7 ft. 2 in., to resounding roars from the crowd. Browning's coach, Charlie Pond, growlingly challenged anyone to prove that his star pupil did not use a one-footed take-off as required by high-jumping rules...
...humanities. Opening enrollment: 200. Anticipated limit: 1,500. ¶ From Boston came two hopeful plans to discover potential juvenile delinquents before they start smashing windows or smoking reefers. One system, devised by Harvard Law School Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and his wife Eleanor, depends on a detailed survey of a pupil's family surroundings, whereupon investigators can rate the child according to a scale of the Gluecks' devising. The other method, invented by Boston University's William C. Kvaraceus, includes both a check list for rating delinquency conditions and a handy set of multiple choice questions for pupils...
...former pupil of Davison, Woodworth has said that he first got his interest in music from his instructor. "It was the powerful magnetism of Dr. Davison which attracted me towards music all through my undergraduate years," Woodworth commented. He became Choral Instructor at Radcliffe immediately after his graduation...
...Palm Beach, more than 30 years after she had taught him "the basic principles of good Americanism." General Carlos P. Romulo, the Philippines' chief U.N. delegate, happily hugged his first American teacher, Mrs. Leo L. Grove, who had not seen Carlos since he was a prize pupil back in the islands...
MOREOVER, OFFICIAL FIGURES OF THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION SHOW THAT UTAH HAS DROPPED IN ITS POSITION AMONG THE STATES IN THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT PER PUPIL EACH YEAR SINCE GOVERNOR LEE'S FIRST TERM BEGAN...