Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picking from faculty suggestions of shirker sophomores and juniors, Amherst Dean C. Scott Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave...
Underlying Amherst's plan to make its students fulfill their promise, said President Cole, is the basic problem of higher education's becoming "an increasingly scarce commodity." With 50% more freshmen seeking admission by 1965, he explained, "colleges will be more and more careful not to permit a...
When she began teaching English at Venice (Calif.) High School, Florence Russell, 28, was determined to enrich the minds of her students. She got a supply of good paperbacks for students to buy if they wished. Principal Walter Larsh approved so long as no student was compelled to buy the...
One day last month. Student Barbara Jean Herin, 16, came home with The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, asked her mother to read aloud as she ironed. For Mrs. Herin, a devout Baptist, it was an unsettling experience. Out of her mouth came the strange words of one Ogden...
The Herins yanked Barbara Jean out of Teacher Russell's class and consulted their pastor. He fired off a letter to Principal Larsh, who quickly agreed that the poems were "unsuitable" and that the book would be withdrawn. When Teacher Russell refused to do so, Alfred S. Roberts, a...