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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Arthur L. Thexton was a model business executive. He was making $30,000 a year as vice president of a Cincinnati manufacturing company. Last November, Arthur Thexton asked his business friends a surprising question: What would they think of his going back to school? "I was afraid [they'd] think I was nuts or something," fays Thexton. But they didn't. Some of them even confessed to the same itch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Leaf | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Arthur Thexton quit his job, enrolled at Columbia to get an M.A. As a college boy at Williams, he had been able to get along by scribbling down a few notes in class. Now, he takes down everything his lecturers say, spends hours each night going over his notes. Says he: "At my age it is much harder to retain the stuff than it was at 19." A member of Cincinnati's reform Charter Party, he wants to teach college courses in government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Leaf | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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