Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined student. In college his grades were so poor that his classmates wondered how he ever lasted out four years at the University of Virginia. Among other things he flunked a course in government. But Ed had other attributes. He was an impressively handsome, exuberantly friendly man who taught Sunday school, became president of the campus Y.M.C.A. and believed that all the world was just as well-meaning as well-meaning Ed Stettinius...
...number of steps towards casing the country's educational crisis" were posed by Professor Harris in last Sunday's New York Time Magazine. Harris, a backer of Federal aid to education, wants government and state help in the form of scholarships, fellowships, and capital outlays, and he doesn't fear any resulting threats to academic freedom. "British experience shows us that aid is possible without control of college educational policies," he explains...
...railroad telegraph operator, but gol darn if he didn't turn out to be America's Favorite Singing Cowboy. Good old Gene is back in the saddle all right--the latest round-up takes him to the Boston Garden for the 18th Annual World Championship Rodeo, which runs through Sunday (matinee championship performances over the weekend...
...statement supporting his article, "The Threefold Crisis in Our Universities," in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Harris claimed that the financial pinch today has forced college professors, even at Harvard to do extra work to support themselves. "On fashionable Brattle St. professors have taken in borders...
...meat loaf which tasted as if someone had misread the recipes on the back of a Corn Flakes box. Orange juice was always canned, and stewed fruits, and canned spice foods, not what one gives to a convalescing patient, made up the diet. Meat, with the exception of Sunday dinner, was poor and rarely present, while the fish on Friday had, better not be described in print...