Word: superiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considered as a whole, the Committee's plan is sound. Except on the point of sophomore admission, the proposals will serve to stimulate the intellectual interests of the superior student and to prevent repetition of previous work. The plan can also have far-reaching influence on the General Education program. This aspect of the proposals will be discussed in tomorrow's editorial...
...Committee also recommends that some students be admitted to the College as freshmen after the eleventh grade of secondary school. Those admitted under this provision would be carefully screened to make sure they were of superior achievement and maturity...
General Education would, of course, be affected by any system of advanced standing. The report states that students may be permitted to omit one or two elementary General Education courses if they secure advanced placement in the area or areas covered by the courses. Freshmen with superior writing ability could secure exemption from General Education...
...Alger tradition. Then the camera watches while the mobsters go back to the gutter, each weighing several pounds more than he had immediately before death. Since both are rather antique, the photography, sound, and much of the acting and direction are adolescent by modern standards. It is mostly the superior villainy of Messers. Cagney and Robinson that makes the films wonderful. Cagney brushes grapefruits into his lovely breakfast partner's face--no, not Jean Harlow, he meets her later. And in addition to his badness he is Loyal, Friendly, Helpful, Kind, Obedient, and in fact possess most of the handbook...
...Farge, insist that such evidences of non-education are the price the nation must pay for a truly democratic school system. This "is a form of insistence that all be held down to a level, rather than . . . trying to raise all to a level." Nonetheless, "parents can get a superior education for their children in private schools . . . Like owning a Cadillac or wearing tailor-made clothes, the superior education costs money . . . [But] in our democracy there is nothing against buying something better if you can afford...