Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Miss Annie, one of the girls helping van Rooijen: "Who would have thought men were so vain...
High-Cost Mines. The tin companies, who thought that the government leaned too far toward the unions, shared with Lechin responsibility for the outbreak at Siglo Veinte. When Hertzog, after prolonged arbitration, ordered a 40% wage boost for miners last month, the Patiño company refused to comply. Wage boosts, it insisted, would force the high-cost mines to shut down, cutting the country's one big source of income...
From the beginning he ruled out lecturing-a spoon-feeding system of teaching, he thought, which "was probably the worst scheme ever devised for imparting knowledge." The "quiz or recitation system," thought Holt, was little better. His own prescription: instead of ordinary classes, constant informal conferences, at which teachers and students could think and talk together...
...have Ph.D.s) or how many A's his students got. He believed that students should "major in the subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought...
Retiring President Mildred McAfee Horton thought Dr. Clapp was "ideal." Wellesley's 1,600 girls would probably agree. They would find in their new president a lively first lady who scorns bridge and refuses to take up knitting. But she can read Scott by the hour ("no problems, no psychoses"), plays the violin, and can make students sit up and take notice when she lectures on American history...