Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many students, Monro stated, are taught in high school or prep school that there is one answer to every question. "If we attack this tendency and others in the Freshman year, however, we might put the student on the right track and save ourselves a lot of trouble later...
Templeton's disciples flocked to meet him once again. Besides McCurdy, 1937 Pacific Coast 880 champ, there was Lonnie Spurrier, first-year Business School student who set a world's record in the 880 while running for Templeton's San Francisco Athletic Club in 1955. Guinn Smith, assistant Dean of the Business School, came over to see the coach who guided him to the 1948 Olympic pole vault championship...
...preseason sessions in Briggs Cage, the team began to take shape after vacation. Since then its performances in practice games have given rise to considerable optimism for the season. The team outscored Cambridge Latin on a rainy and cold Friday one week ago and easily out-played Somerville High School last Tuesday, giving much promise for the future in both games...
Kaysen, like Bender, emphasized that Harvard alone cannot bring a change in secondary school educational policies. He conceded that mathematics standards might be too low, but agreed that any change must be done by large, widelyknown colleges working together...
From abnegation of responsibility it is but a small step to abnegation of moral standards. A Council treasurer absconds with the funds; athletes gang up on town youths and beat them up; a candidate for office buys votes from a neighboring school. With the former "representative" now interested only in himself (and athletes are a curiously unique kind of representative) and with no one to answer to but himself, many sorts of actions are possible...