Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counting only games played among the top eight the standings read...
Such "sweeping generalizations" cannot be made with regard to education, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, asserted, because "the objects of education are too infinitely varied." Jones, however, supported Harris' recommendation for more independent study. "The idea that the student ought to read more, without the protection of an instructor, is excellent," he remarked...
...adolescence, on the other hand, was dismal. It began to matter that she outweighed her contemporaries. As W. G. Rogers says in his book, When you see this remember me Gertrude Stein in person, "The normal adolescent girl, busy with playmates, clothes, parties, school lessons, does not read Wordsworth, Scott, and other poets, a set of Shakespeare with notes, Burns, Congressional Records, encyclopedias; she does not absorb Shakespeare nor pore over Clarissa Harlowe, Fielding, Smollett, and a tremendous amount of history." Strangely, she already feared that there would not be enough books to fill her lifetime...
...graduates to college grossly unprepared for higher education, and many schools are still run. Hechinger reminds his readers, by such administrators as the Florida school official who said recently, "The training of our youth in sound practices in the operation of motor vehicles is as important as learning to read.'' Hechinger suggests some reforms well worth debating...
...minute-triple the manual rate. Each letter passes on a conveyor belt before the eyes of a postal worker, who pushes keys to direct it to one of 300 cubbyholes. Now P-B's scientists are tinkering with the ultimate in postal automation: a mechanical scanner to "read" the address and do the sorting automatically...