Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again there was a dead silence, and Dudley could feel the sweat on his brow increase. His left hand became clammy, and soon her right became clammy. It was this that made Dud sure that they were meant for each other. Still he was stuck for words.
Of all the carry-overs from the last century which vex and frustrate educators, there is perhaps none more inefficient than the legacy of a school calendar built around an agricultural life which demanded time off for summer work on the farms.
In the last three years, there has been a strong rebirth of interest in full-year educational systems. A public school have each undertaken a major study. Although the recommendations were strikingly different, the findings had a great deal in common.
In 1957, Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was...
The summer session, running from mid-July to early September will be voluntary, as will the winter session. During one of the two half-terms, the student is required to do field work. The college will give courses, often doing experimental work in the brief term. This winter, for example...