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...only Roman Catholic educator on President Kennedy's advisory panel on research and development in education is a pert, blue-eyed nun addressed with affectionate informality by her fellow panelists as "Sister J." She is Sister Jacqueline Grennan, S.L., 36, vice president of Missouri's Webster College, and her place on the panel is no concession to her sex or religion. She belongs in the trail-blazing company she keeps, an experimental elite-educators of educators-that includes M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias, Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner and U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. To Colleague Bruner...
...with the Tried-and-Tired. Sister Jacqueline was born a country girl, in Rock Falls, Ill., and she has retained the tenacious energy of a girl raised on a farm. A member of the Sisters of Loretto since she graduated from Webster College in 1948, Sister Jacqueline was tried out "on loan" five years ago as vice president for a year. Before very long, the 48-year-old school in the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves was animatedly percolating with her fresh ideas and projects, and the appointment, which includes control of curriculum development, was made permanent. From...
This attitude is writ large upon the town's constitution. Earlier on in American history, Daniel Webster got himself into a debate in the New Hampshire House of Representatives when he attacked the Tory notion that power follows property. But news travelled slowly in those days and apparently this piece of information never did get to the Eastern Shore. Only citizens who possess title to more than $500 worth of property within the town's limits can vote in Chestertown elections. The great majority of citizens, both white and colored, either rent their land or own considerably less that...
...hard to tell whether the utter tedium of George Nugent's String Quartet, Gerald Bennett's Three Songs, and James Webster's String Quartet should be blamed on the performers or the composers. In all three works, it is clear that the composers have approached the common idiom of twentieth century music--and beneath a few musical pinnacles, there really is one--much as a snake eats a rat: by swallowing it whole and unchewed. Giving the details of the ingestion would be too painful here. Three Psalm Fragments, by Thomas Benjamin, received a spirited performance by a selected chorus...
...Judge Webster Thayer, a garrulous and somewhat simple man, engaged in frequent indiscreet conversations outside the courtroom, according to the testimony of five witnesses. On one occasion he rehearsed a portion of his charge to a friend, asking every so often, "That will hold them, don't you think?" Another time he asked an acquaintance, "Did you see what I did with those anarchistic bastards the other...