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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local School Superintendent, Ralph Ryder, described Tom Marino as "an outstanding teacher," and I suspect he is right. It would be hard to come up with three books more suitable than these for engaging and stretching the minds of today's high-school teenagers. What a far cry this is from the bland pap and drivel-such as the verse of Edgar Guest-that I had to study (and memorize!) when attending high school in Maine some years ago. I am sorry I didn't have as sage an English teacher as Mr. Marino, and Telstar High should regret that...
...THIS skirmish, then, the forces of light and right seem to have triumphed for a change. But the Rev. Hanson carried his campaign into the pages of The Leaflet, the official organ of the New England Association of Teachers of English, by contributing his article "Choosing Literature" to the May 1969 issue, in which he branded books like the three above as "immoral," "degenerate," and "worthless trash...
Navy romped to ?? 88-16 win over Columbia last Saturday, but every team does that to the Lions, so it is hard to determine how strong Navy is right now. The sports information office said that no times were exceptional and that no one did better than expected...
Navy's hopes in the freestyle events, where it must hope to cut into Harvard's advantage rest upon four swimmers-Bo Rose. Can Parlier. Randy Nettling, and Dan Baas, Parlier finished right behind Harvard captain Mike Cahalan when Cahalan won the 50-free in last winter's Eastern Championships. Rose. a sophomore, may be an even better sprinter than Parlier...
...that Sachs was trying to play Claudius as a Machiavellian Prince. He succeeded only insofar as he was extremely unemotional and dry throughout, save for occasional shouts and arrgghhs. Miss Allyn wasn't bad. She played Gertrude a little like Kanga in Winnie the Pooh. Which may be about right, because Gertrude is always so concerned and motherly, even, we suppose, as she helps murder old King Hamlet...