Word: webster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thriving on dissatisfaction with public schools, 3R bans every possible "frill"-dances, student government, fund drives, P.T.A., and all athletics except for daily calisthenics. For a tuition of $900 a year, it offers old-fashioned work, using McGuffey and Noah Webster's 1783 Bluebook Speller (last revised in 1906). The only concession to modernity is grouping by ability in each subject, not by grades, so students can whiz through faster. Every 3R kindergartener writes and understands numbers up to 25, and some to 100. They begin reading at 4½. And it's all done without student geniuses...
...Francisco's hungry i last week Sisters Mary and Helen Grandison and Cousin Dottie Webster, hips swaying under plain blue dresses, had every bottle on the bar rattling as they belted out old gospel favorites with poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock...
...Committee, which would suggest necessary improvements to the Corporation, visited the area two weeks ago at the request of the Department of Athletics, according to Dean Monro. Involving only two older playing fields, the site in question does not include the new Webster Fields, built with funds from the Program for Harvard College...
...five artists imported last week raised no questions at all. Four of them had painted New Englanders or New England scenes, ranging from George P. A. Healy's glowering portrait of Daniel Webster to a lighthearted Bathing, Marblehead by Maurice Prendergast. There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House...
...audience of approximately one at the Presidential Ballroom of Hotel included "the important radio and television in the country" and the President, , and members of the the Supreme Court, according to tour manager, Peter Strauss '61. Strauss and Albert K. Webster tour manager for the Far Eastern agreed that the audience reaction 'certainly very favorable." Webster that Kennedy claimed to have of the Club's Far Eastern tour and the members, "we are counting on things from...