Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of each student "tutor" has far greater implications than mere teaching of English or Economics. His objective is the attempt to clear up a national problem--the widening gap between high school and employment. Vividly apparent from the swelling ranks of the C. C. C., the N. Y. A., and the W. P. A., the struggle of youth to find an opening in private industry is becoming more acute each year. Claiming that public education has failed to prepare its graduates for their place in life, the Gulick report to the New York Board of Regents last fall favored...
What the N. Y. A. can offer in practical experience, the Undergraduate Faculty offers in theory. Practical experience in Radio Servicing, for instance, gets the high school graduate his first job. For advancement to Radio Engineering, however, he must have a theoretical background--Math, Physics, Chemistry--and it is courses like these that the Undergraduate Faculty can supply. A new responsibility has come to face each college. With his potential knowledge the student can take an active part in boosting the high school graduate a few rungs higher on his vocational ladder...
...brilliant past means anything, Jim Lightbody will be a fitting successor to Haydock. Son of an Olympic runner, Lightbody broke his back in high school and seemed shut out of track for life. As a Freshman he had already overcome this handicap when he made the Oxford-Cambridge meet; for two years now he has been unbeatable over the 440 and 880 distances...
...leading editorial of today's issue of the Alumni Bulletin, the editors review the tutoring school campaign and in reference to the faculty action of last week prohibiting the employment of students by tutoring schools, state that they feel that the Faculty ought to act further...
...School for Husbands" is one of those witty, urbane, and inconsequential comedies that the English do so well. With a story that might have come out of the "Decameron", and a capable cast headed by Rex Harrison, Director Swanson has blended a screen cocktail that is pleasantly aphrodisiacal (in a nice way, of course...