Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musicomedy at its most charming. Distance lends enchantment doubly-in time as well as space-to the story of an English widow who went to Siam in the 1860s to act as governess to the King's large brood, and found her most eager, childish and unruly pupil in the King himself...
...Shih, has observed that his country's Red regime allows neither freedom of expression nor freedom of silence. What he meant was plain last week at a "self-accusation" meeting of students and teachers of Peking's famed Yenching University (TIME, Feb. 26). Professor after professor and pupil after pupil stood up to confess the blackest sin in Communism's book: pro-Americanism. Among the breast-beaters...
...been in the district the year before, had since moved away. The man behind the mystery was Litchfield's Superintendent Hubert A. Bearss, who thought his schools and teachers could well use a bit more state money. Because the state figures $147 a year for each pupil on the rolls, Bearss had told his teachers to keep listing their missing Mexican pupils as present & accounted...
...second half of the season, the orchestra has added two more to swell its record membership to 82. Joseph Cacciati '54 played bass violin for two years with the National Symphony of Washington under Hans Kindler. Another pupil of Richard Burgin, Barbara Sorenson '52 enlarges the violin section...
...Pupils learned their first geography and geology on long walks at Pestalozzi's side. They learned their numbers by counting stones, their letters from alphabet blocks, their fractions from squares cut up into halves, thirds and quarters. "Let [the pupil] see for himself, hear, find out, fall, pick himself up, make mistakes," said Pestalozzi. "What he can do for himself, let him do; let him be always occupied, always active...