Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...films cost New Haven $3 a pupil last year. The 60? rate is possible because a New York photo-engraver mused. Three Powers brothers own & operate Powers Photo Engraving Co., one of the nation's biggest & best, and a half-dozen allied concerns. Brother Augustin Jay Powers, president, has currently been functioning as publicity man for New York City Democrats. Brother John Michael Powers is the financial man of the three. Brother Frank Thomas Powers, 50, is the tinkerer. Four years ago Tinkerer Frank Powers, to cheapen production costs in the Powers plants, which use thousands of photographs...
...Taking the stand that "the swollen and unwholesome concern with mere admission to college" is greatly over-emphasized, the Foundation objects to both certification and admission by examination as criterions of a student's eligibility to enter college. Instead, the report recommends "a true chart and record of the pupil's activities" to show his fitness for further study, and to give an indication of the most suitable field for him. In addition tests are suggested to give an accurate survey of the pupil's "present" knowledge...
...taken of the frequently haphazard or outdated school courses, and there have also been more than a few cases of kind schoolmasters padding a student's grade. The Old Plan examination method of the oldest and best-known American universities depends too much on the chance that the pupil will have the ideal combination of "knowledge, health, and temperament, cleverness, and good luck" at one time...
...Hoover went to Des Moines early this month, he received aboard his special train Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran of West Branch who was widely publicized as his first school teacher (TIME, Oct. 17). Mrs. Carran promptly rejected the "first" claim, explained that she was only the first teacher her pupil, aged 10, could remember before he went West. She named Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler Sunier of Iowa City as the person who started Herbert Hoover's education. Interviewed last week, Mrs. Sunier declared: "Did I think Bertie would be President? Of course I didn't and I wish they...
...example, in the Old Plan Restrictive English Examination, grammatical rules. MacBeth, Silas Marner, Burke's Conciliation and few others are carefully memorized and then like trained animals the students perform them for the examination. For all the examiner could tell, these seven or eight books might be all the pupil had ever read...