Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Holbein the Younger and Martin Luther's great friend, Lucas Cranach-whose work made Germany for half a century the leader of the Northern Renaissance. The level of excellence achieved in this brief period is shown by Cranach's son and pupil, Lucas Cranach the Younger. Starting with a piece of paper tinted slightly pink, the young Cranach sketched the head and shoulders of the young Princess Elizabeth of Saxony (see color page) with quick brush strokes of brown ink, then tinted the face and hair with oil paint. The result...
...schools must face the problems of both the slow learner and the gifted pupil...
...their present grade structure," says Bestor, comprehensive, essay-type examinations should be restored as "the basic means of evaluating educational preparations and measuring educational achievement." Comprehensive testing, he says, is the answer to at least one big problem: how to give the best education to bright but needy pupils. It is an injustice to charge both the dull and the bright pupil the same college tuition, because one is potentially more valuable to society than the other. Bestor would bill everyone for full tuition, but reduce the bill on the basis of entrance examinations, giving top students free tuition...
...Grade F. "Not one of the school boards has made any move to try to work out anything," a top Negro attorney correctly reports. The Alabama state legislature recently enacted a "Placement Bill," over the veto of Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, empowering local school boards to place pupils in schools upon such considerations as "the psychological qualifications of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved . . . the possibility of breaches of peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community...
This charming ditty was written by a man. who might well be emotionally aroused by tax matters-a retired financier. He is Brooklyn's Avery Claflin, 57, president until last year of Manhattan's French American Banking Corp. A onetime pupil of French Composer Erik Satie, and himself the composer of three operas, Claflin had settled back into a comfortable life of composition last January when he was interrupted by the impending tax-filing date. He spent six weeks making out the forms for his large family. "When you are working with words over and over again," says...