Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Soldiers Field site was given to the University by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow under a deed which limits its use strictly to "meadows or College buildings." Schlesinger said that "the Federal government might be able to construct a library on the land since the building would be used for scholastic...
Sir: TIME'S account of the debate on national scholastic standards was excellent. As chairman of the Democratic Advisory Council's committee on education, I recommended a Council of Educational Advisors to the President, comparable to the Council of Economic Advisors.
A Crusty Leader. The student body of 3,861 is well above the national average in scholastic achievement, and Branscomb has helped by minimizing frills such as football and fraternities. Tuition has risen $400 since 1958 to the present $1,000 a year. More than half the students come to...
What makes the question of local control a current subject of U.S. debate is a growing gap between the have and have-not schools, widened by the financial dis parity between school systems and com pounded by a national shortage of skilled manpower. To some critics, the situation cries out...
problem: how to raise scholastic stand ards without freezing profitable academic ferment in a rigid mold. One idea is a national advisory body for education. Columbia's Fischer, for example, proposes an organization like the American Red Cross, without federal funds or power, "to pass ammunition to local school...