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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not be cozened out of our birthright by the prophets of doom," orated 20-year-old Charles E. Hodges, valedictorian for 120 graduating seniors at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md. The coal miner's son spoke for "thousands of graduates throughout the nation" in asking their elders "to place confidence in us." The response came minutes later on the same platform, when U.S. Citizen No. 1 praised the valedictory as the best he had ever heard, went on to match its spirit with an account of "more crusades that need to be waged...
...sense of the report," summed up Amsterdam's Roman Catholic daily De Tijd, "comes down to this . . . The great design which was proclaimed like a trumpet call throughout The Netherlands-to make the Papuans ripe for independent activity in all fields-remains a slogan...
...National Education Association, strident P.T.A. chapters throughout the nation, school boards, and educational theorists hiding in our universities, have elaborate programs for action. Unfortunately, the ghost of "progressive education" haunts any program of experiment. The failure of total student freedom in the classroom, the neglect of basic skills for intellectual meandering,--those character defects of modern education which have come to be associated with "progressive education" have engendered in the minds of parents and the press an idea that education must return to the little red school house, the three R's, and the straightlaced New England discipline. Weekly, Time...
Third, the issue of better teaching can be met head-on. In spotted school districts throughout the nation, a high school teacher is required to have a Master's Degree. While a step in the right direction of qualified instructors, such a stipulation ignores the more basic problems. Immediate among these, is the low pay of teachers...
Crimson pitcher Gerry Emmet had a rather easy time with the Blue opposition for the first eight innings, allowing only six hits and three runs, all unearned. But he seemed shaky with men on base throughout the game, and in the ninth, when there were always men on base, this weakness caught up with...