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...same time Lieutenant Commander Stanley L. Wilson, assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics, stated Friday that instead of the usual long summer cruise for students in Naval Science, a series of six-day training periods would be substituted, the first starting June 1 and the last August...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVAL SUPPLY TO ENLIST 600 MORE | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...Tuttles of Tahiti (RKO Radio) are an exceptionally lazy family. Trying to get them to work is like trying to interest a six-day bicycle racer in a five-day week. Their laziness is encouraged by the man from whom they inherited it: their improvident, prolific, lovable father Jonas (Charles Laughton), South Seas remnant of the Massachusetts Tuttles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...Biggest problem before the convention was "acceleration" of high-school students. The U.S. Office of Education's Wartime Commission recommended that high schools cut their course from four to three years by means of summer sessions, a six-day week or a longer school day. Object: to graduate students earlier to college or defense jobs. Objection: although acceleration would be restricted to selected students, many delegates feared that it would lower standards for high schools, observed that there was no way to accelerate a youngster's growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schools & The War | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Entered in the two-mile race, Dodds did everything a runner shouldn't do: he started out pumping like a six-day bike rider, zigzagged all over the track like a halfback, and finally-a full lap behind on the gun lap and staggering like a punch-drunk fighter-tripped Don Lash just a few yards from the tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Dodds Goes to Town | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...four quarters instead of three. At University of Chicago, a student can take as many as eight courses a quarter, graduate in a year and a half. Last week Chicago's meteorology course, training weather experts for the Army and Navy air arms, went from a five-to six-day week. Chicago has also arranged to let draftees finish college by taking correspondence courses at half rates. > Northwestern has another speed-up plan (to be tried first in its School of Speech): it will admit exceptionally able high-school juniors, let them combine the high-school senior and college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Short Cut | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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