Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, Professor W. G. Workman, trying vainly to hypnotize a student for demonstration purposes by monotonous talk and having him stare at a chalk line, suddenly noticed that a watching member of the class had gone into a rigid trance. It was Charles Hudson, lonely, nervous junior, a star pupil in abnormal psychology. Professor Workman could not bring Charles Hudson out of the trance, prescribed exercise and normal activity. For three days fellow-students walked the blank-eyed boy around the campus, rode him on street cars, took him to a cinema. Suddenly, on the third day, Charles Hudson blinked...
...with your earth besides affecting lovers and inspiring poets. The story of my origin; my mountains and craters; my influence on the sea and hundreds of other things are just as interesting as my love lore. Why not journey to the Astronomical Laboratory and hear my good friend and pupil Dr. Kuiper tell you a bit about me in the morning...
...Stephen F. Bayne of New York City schools delivered to his chief, Superintendent Harold G. Campbell, a monumental report. It had taken Dr. Bayne and his Committee on Articulation & Integration four years to prepare. It embraced, he admitted, "radical changes'" de-signed to fit education to the individual pupil. Under Dr. Bayne's idyllic system, every pupil, smart or dull, would progress steadily through six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high. With him from grade to grade would go a complete case history. If his interests were unacademic, he would take cultural...
...Tildsley let fly: "The members of the committee may not mean what they have so clearly said, but if so then I regard this as the most dangerous report ever made within my knowledge by any committee of the school system. . . . Let us follow this through logically. A pupil enrolls in the elementary schools, spends six years there without being required to meet any standards, and passes on to the junior high school, which must then lower its standard to meet his. He goes on to the high school, where the same process is repeated. Then he goes...
...find patronage of the arts a convenient avenue to amorous adventure. Denny promotes Gambarelli. Tubin, to get even, sends Martini to study song in Paris. By the time she joins him here his tendency to regard their friend ship as platonic is fortified by his interest in a dance pupil, Anita Louise. He does not know that his debut at the Opera-Comique has only been made possible because Tobin bought out the house later finds this is so, and fails in his perform ance. He is back in the U. S. when Miss Louise starts him to fame again...