Word: schoolmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arena. It is an exciting, if exacting spectator sport to see a spirited logician in broken-field running (using the split-hair formation) tear through a platoon of Platonists or a squad of schoolmen. Russell puts living and dead philosophers in the same intellectual arena. Turning to 6th century B.C. Greece, for example, he respects Anaximander's intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe...
...neighborhoods, and no transfers were allowed. But that effective formula (also followed in Washington, D.C.) re-emphasized a sad, subtle U.S. segregation of another kind. In 14 major cities, from Boston to Los Angeles, it blights 25% to 35% of 3,200,000 children in public schools. Worried schoolmen call it "the problem of the culturally handicapped." They mean the mental ghettos in which thousands of dispirited Negro children live because no one-teachers or parents-can stir them to care...
...much of the credit for the young scholar's enormous feat of learning must go to Denver's top-ranked school system. Justin Brierly, coordinator of college counseling for Denver schools, summed it up in a way that other schoolmen might well note: "Bill had the natural talent, and our system has two things to offer: early detection of gifted students and a suitable and intensified program to provide them with full development...
...will not yield to that which I know is wrong," cried he. "Abandonment of the principles involved anywhere is to forsake them everywhere." His lowest blow: "The livid stench of sadism, sex, immorality and juvenile pregnancy infesting the mixed schools of the District of Columbia and elsewhere." Washington schoolmen, whose delinquency problems are no worse than most big-city school systems', angrily lashed back at the myth created by four years of Dixie Congressmen's efforts to prove that integration does not work in the nation's capital...
Stung to attention by national publicity, the Atlanta Journal sent Reporter Margaret Shannon to Lakeland, printed her indignant articles flogging school Officials. With the state hearing coming up at the end of the month, local schoolmen, unwilling to face a second reproof from the press, met hurriedly with two state officials, said that Teacher Baskin could return to work with full back pay, no loss of benefits. Back in a fourth grade classroom last week, the 65-year-old teacher, who will retire with a pension in June, said: "It has been most trying for me. I'm glad...