Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Principals are convinced (63% to 25%) that students are not required to read enough books, and 61% of the educators feel that high schools emphasize athletics too much. One out of four parents can see nothing wrong with U.S. schools, and most of the others think curriculum difficulties are not so serious as the shortage of classrooms, poor student discipline and the low pay of teachers. But curriculum deficiencies are a pressing concern for a majority of the principals. They were asked: "Have you made, or are you planning to make, any changes in the requirements or the curriculum...
...carry commuters such as these it costs your railroad $2 for every $1 received." So read the caption under a photograph of anonymous commuters in the New Haven railroad's annual report, which sadly totted up a $2,363,702 deficit in 1957. Last week, reporting an even steeper deficit of $3,018,169 just for January-February, the New Haven unhappily discovered the identity of the costly "commuters" pictured in its annual report. Names: Boston and Maine's President Patrick B. McGinnis-who was dumped as New Haven president after a 1956 commuter revolt against late trains...
Some auto dealers were even stumping for their competitors. In nearby Dearborn, Edsel Dealer Floyd Rice posted a sign that read: IF WE CAN'T SELL YOU, SEE OUR NEIGHBOR, H. R. MARSH & SON, ACROSS THE STREET! Chevrolet Dealer Marsh returned the plug: OUR NEIGHBOR, FLOYD RICE, HAS GOOD DEALS...
...wife and kiddies around TV, for love once a week (Thursday; ; up and at 'em 7 a.m. for another round, bigger and better. You've gotta be on the ball every minute in this world, buddy. Gotta live hard if you're gonna get anywhere. Read a book? How long's it take? Sorry pal, I gotta...
Each of five contestants is required to read and defend a paper before a panel of faculty members. Topics for this year's competition include "Apology II: A Comparison of Socrates and J. Robert Oppenheimer" and "Henry VII: Bacon's From of Machiavellianism...