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...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...
...hardly a sign of malnutrition that Utah ranks 37th in the U.S. in the amount spent on each [school] pupil [TIME, Jan. 11]. That is exactly where we rank with other states in our ability to support public schools, as measured by the total personal income per enrolled pupil . . . Despite our low rank in ability to support education, we nevertheless lead the nation in our efforts to do so, as measured by the percentage of personal income devoted to our schools. Comparison of the amount expended per school child is not always a good indicator of the quality of education...
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...
Browning's knack was discovered by accident. He was practicing flips and somersaults under the admiring eye of Illinois Gymnastics Coach Charley Pond recently when both coach and pupil were struck with the same idea: Browning was clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters...
Returning to the problem of individuality, President Pusey stated that every conscientious teacher hopes that his pupil's mind will hold within it some ideas "that are clearly his own, that have been felt, and so mean something personal and individual...