Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teacher Marson scoffs at the idea that objective tests are necessary for a flood of college applicants from widely varying high schools. He believes that percentile grades are "relative hogwash," and that essay exams are irreplaceable. "The fact that not one complete sentence (or paragraph) has to be composed either...
Died. David Blair Owen, 51, onetime president of Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., who resigned in 1952 after a New York judge sent five Bradley basketball players to jail for throwing a game but fingered Owen as the true culprit for fostering "illegal recruiting, subsidization of athletes, evasion of scholastic...
The education reporter no longer looks at the schoolroom picture windows or handsome parquet floors shown off by proud principals; instead, he is interested in the teachers and the students. After the first Russian Sputnik restimulated interest in education in 1957, says Education Editor Richard Philbrick of the Chicago Tribune...
After he retired in 1948, Stillings' hotel room grew more cluttered with company reports and market letters. Every so often he rode to New York on his lifetime train pass to visit his broker; sometimes he traveled all the way to Florida to look at real estate. And ten...
So they moved Gary into a still bigger gym. By this time, there was fretful muttering that first place might have to go to Mike Berkowitz, 17, whose toss of only 53 ft. 10¼ in. had hit nothing but the floor. But the weary Bronx boy-whale finally got...