Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American, and the crowd's favorite from the beginning, was Cleveland-born Sidney Harth, 32, concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. His Soviet competitor was a talented Russian girl, Rosa Fain, 28, pupil of Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, one of the judges. Only 13 violinists lasted to the finals. The required work: a Polish violin concerto. Both Violinists Harth and Fain selected Wieniawski's Second Concerto...
...called "group dynamics." Last week in The Clearing House, a magazine for high school teachers, H. A. Jeep and J. W. Hollis of Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Ind. described how group dynamics worked in a class in mental hygiene and in another class dedicated to "organizing the pupil personnel program." Teachers' Teachers Hollis and Jeep thought the results inspiring...
...completely different education from the kind they would receive elsewhere, but to keep them constantly challenged. "A kindergarten child with an IQ of 135," says Alma, "is about 6½ years old. You can't keep a child like that interested in finger painting all year." Each pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons to develop muscular control. They have visited the College of Puget Sound to hear a lecture...
...access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...
Last week Arnold Fenton went to Palmer Stadium to watch Princeton drub Dartmouth for the Ivy League championship (see above) and to keep a teacher's eye on Prize Pupil Bill Gundy. Dartmouth's punter, who worked with him for two long months last summer. Fenton had drilled the erratic Gundy on his coordination, changed him into one of the best punters in the East this fall. In the debacle. Gundy still managed to out-punt Princeton by seven yards a try. "When one of my boys like Bill gets off a good one." chuckled Father Fenton...