Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This sum exceeds the record sum contributed last year by the Class of 1932 by almost $75,000. Late contributions may push the present total even higher. The official figure will be anounced when Dr. Irad B. Hardy, Jr. '33 marshal of the alumni, presents the Class gift to President Pusey...
...Physics and Chemistry courses which are electives in the upper two classes, and the teaching of these subjects is now being brought up to date with the assistance of an M.I.T. science teaching program. But this does not mean that the school feels an increased need to push all students ahead in the sciences. One math teacher observes that only the most mature as well as bright students will be able to take the most advanced math course. "The rest," he says, "need the old pound and repeat." And science courses are only required for the youngest two classes...
...huge ads in the local paper screamed in black type. The School Board tried to reply with feeble statements from faculty members urging the new schools, but every statement they made served only to strengthen the split in city beliefs. Opposition cries that the Board was trying to push measures through without telling the townspeople what they were doing probably held more than a grain of truth. Until the Board tries to gain general consent from the community before it proposes a plan--and incorporates in it the intelligent suggestions of the non-Board members--there will never...
There is little danger that further advances in the quality and variety of regular school courses will push bright students into an "academic shell."The queen of Horace Mann Homecoming graciously receives a bouquet of roses after her crowning. Her highness and the members of her court wear corsages to indicate they were elected by their schoolmates as the most popular and attractive senior girls. Coronation ceremonies occur at half-time at the season's biggest football game. Like Harvard, Horace Mann rarely wins a football game and rarely cares...
Course reduction started very slowly, and though it has picked up some momentum while '58 has been able to take advantage of it, it is not a widely utilized program even now. Many departments have been very slow to push it, and the publicity on the idea was nonexistent. And further many students seemed very hesitant to accept the responsibility for studying where there would be no grade to reward them...