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...Leonard E. Loos, principal of the Euclid (Ohio) Shore Junior High School, complained that schoolteachers as pictured on TV are lowering academic prestige. Said Principal Loos: "How often are a pupil's reactions based on the feeling that his teacher is a scatterbrained Mr. Peepers ... or an irrepressible wag like Our Miss Brooks...
...ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism gave his pupil such a contempt for narrow scholarship that Nate told his classmates after graduation, "If you ever catch me around here again, you can shoot me." He tried to get a job in publishing, but wound up teaching at the Riverdale Country School for boys, just outside Manhattan. There, during...
...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...