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...tiers in the U.S., and such honored elder surgeons as New Orleans' Alton Ochsner and St. Louis' Evarts Graham, there was none among them who towered above his fellows as did Baltimore's William Stewart Halsted half a century ago, or Halsted's pupil, Harvey Gushing, a generation later. The reason lies not in a decline in the caliber of surgeons, but in a change in the nature of surgery itself...
...country, she finds the relationship between teacher and student far more healthy and constructive than in Europe. "American teachers have much more respect for the student. Students don't learn to be meek and mousey: they're invited to speak up. In Germany, the teacher is the master, the pupil is a little 'pimpf'. The master-servant relationship in the German school and family was the Hitler regime on a small scale, a preparation...
Time was when Michael Solomon was known as just about the most contented teacher in The Bronx. His subject was Latin, and when he first started at the DeWitt Clinton High School in 1908, almost every pupil went at least through Caesar. Even as late as 1923, when he became head of the department, he could boast 16 teachers of Latin on his staff...
Last week the pupil was outdoing the old master. Adlai Stevenson's refusal to back up Texas claims to tidelands oil (TIME, Sept. 1) has given Shivers a fighting anti-Administration issue which Byrnes lacks in his home state. Shivers is making the most of it. When he announced that he wouldn't vote for Stevenson in November, Texans poured letters in on him at the rate of 1,000 a day, backed him up by an 8-1 margin. Attorney General Price Daniel, now running for the U.S. senatorial seat to be vacated by Tom Connally, also...
...classe nouvelle, each limited to 30 students, is to tailor education to the abilities of the individual. Teachers supervise every child, hold private talks with him, then with his parents. For the first time, a full psychological dossier, carefully noting his outstanding talents and troubles, is kept on each pupil...