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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Core of the problem for the Foreign Service and for the next generation of journalists, pay-later tourists, and businessmen abroad: 56.4% of U.S. high schools, according to the report, do not teach even one foreign language. Less than 15% of public high school students are enrolled in a modern foreign-language course (almost none study ancient languages). Most take French or Spanish; rare are courses in Russian, Chinese, German, Italian or Portuguese. Even students exposed to languages may not take on enough ability to read a menu. Weighting the odds against the student, according to the report: ill-taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Language Barrier | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...representatives and chapel administrator at Boston's South Station, Monsignor Christopher P. Griffin prayed in the house last week for a bill granting a subsidy to the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony commuter line. Prayed he: "Heavenly Father, you know what is in my heart-so teach me the prayer today. How, 0 Lord, wouldst thou pray if thine own temple were now on the Old Colony line?" Turning to the legislators, he continued: "I pray for you, now it is your turn to pray over me. I'll pray-you vote-let God decide. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Scholar Kerr continued to teach and write learned articles during his term as chancellor, optimistically plans to do the same as president. One activity he has abandoned for the moment: sandlot athletics with his children (Clark, 15, Alexander, 12, Caroline, 6) and neighbor kids, halted when he broke a tibia recently in a soccer game. He is up at 6 a.m. on working days, commutes from one campus to another by plane, sometimes takes a grocery carton full of documents home at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Big, Big C | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...philosophy, but implies that it should be at least as deferential as the one employed before doctors of medicine. Although the title "has come to be equated with medical practitioner," he continues, "by ancient definition, 'doctor' means one sufficiently skilled in any branch of knowledge to teach it." Dr. Seymour acknowledges that there are some weak programs leading to Ph.D.s (a onetime Brooklyn Dodger bat boy, he got his from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ph.D. at Bat | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...Mary's points: 1) questionnaires are an attempt to find out which children suffer from unhappy homes and thus enable the church to offer help; 2) play costumes are costly and so too are the increasing number of lay teachers needed in growing parochial schools; 3) mission collections teach children to make sacrifices; 4) Mrs. Cronin could help improve her children's textbooks by working with Parent-Teacher Associations; 5) if the play nets enough to pay an additional ?teacher next year, the doubled-up class may be separated-if another classroom is available ("This is a national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peeved Parent | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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