Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each autumn the nation's most indignant parents are those with children barely too young to enter school. The cutoff age may be as high as 6½ (in Des Moines) or as low as 5 years 3 months (in Norwich, N.Y.), but thousands of children are bound to miss out by a few days or weeks. In 77% of U.S. public schools, the rules are inflexible; the child simply has to wait another year...
...meet the requirements of both sound practice and parental desire, more and more schools are adding one loophole to the hard-and-fast age rule: examination of borderline cases by a competent child psychologist. A survey last year by the National Education Association disclosed widespread sentiment for the idea, already in use in about 15% of U.S. school systems. "Testing the child and counseling the parent," predicted one school principal, "will some day replace age as the criteria." Last week in Cherry Creek, a well-to-do suburb of Denver, Superintendent Robert Higday Shreve countered the general acceptance of definite...
Dread of impending shame weighed with crushing force on Cheng Guan Lim, Chinese engineering student at the University of Michigan. He was doing badly in physics and math, thought he was sure to flunk out. Soon there would be nothing for it but to leave school, quit his job as janitor at Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, and take the humiliating news back to his schoolteacher father in Singapore. Finally, one day in October 1955, Cheng disappeared. His friends, including the Rev. Eugene Ransom, pastor of the church, called in police. They found no clues...
...prospering art galleries, young artists across the land are turning back to images-but with a difference. The classical tradition, reasserted in the Renaissance, has always been that people are beautiful, at least in art. The new imagemakers dispute that. Their figures are human, but horrible. The horror school has its center in Chicago, is staffed by an earnest, loose-knit and surprisingly well-adjusted handful of Art Institute graduates...
Burns belongs to a growing group of U.S. managers who got their training in an almost unexcelled school of versatility: the management-consultant firm. Born in Watertown, Mass., he has made a career of versatility. He swung a pick in a highway gang, earned a doctorate in metallurgy at Harvard ('34), taught in universities (Harvard, Lehigh) before joining Republic Steel as a laborer (wages: 59? an hour). In 1941, having moved up to become boss of Republic's wiremaking division at $12,000 a year, he turned down an offer of twice that and accepted the bid that...