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This year, however, the situation of the pupil attempting to win from his teacher does not exist. As a matter of fact, Dick Harlow, has been scouting for Brown, but has not included Harvard on his Saturday peeking assignments...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Bewitched Brown Out to Snap Spell | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...always. In Washington, D.C., Oppenheimer once interrupted a lecture by a slow-moving ex-pupil: "Well, really, this room is full of people who know the answer to this question. Let's get on." *This view does not sit well with many scientists -- among them Nobel Prizewinner Percy Bridgman, Oppenheimer's ol'd Harvard teacher. Says Bridgman: "If anybody should feel guilty, it's God. He put the facts there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Robert's worried father sent "him west for his health, engaging Teacher Smith as his companion. It was the boy's first look at New Mexico, and he fell in love with it. Teacher and pupil talked like philosophers, and dressed like prospectors; Robert added to his crystal specimens, and learned to sit a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Atlanta, during a demonstration to show schoolchildren what to do in case of fire, seven firemen were overcome by smoke. In Clarkston, Wash., Golf Professional Joe Durgan, showing Pupil Howard Melcher how to swing a golf club, shot his first hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Either ... Or. The real difference between Stepinac and its rival public high schools, and the real reason Westchester boys commute to it (whether the impetus comes from themselves, their families or their parish priests), is religion. Because of the separation of church & state in the U.S., no pupil can now have any religious instruction, even a Bible reading, on public-school premises.* At Stepinac every boy, whatever his course, has a 45-minute class in religion every day of his four high-school years. He attends regular services in the school chapel and auditorium. Just before Easter each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentals of the Faith | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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