Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 100 undergraduates, chosen at random from the College phone book, gathered at Whitman Half last night for a "Homecoming Dance, gives an honor of John Snell '53 (pictured left), Suell's name was arbitrarily picked from the phone directory...
Mary Ellen Reffert '54 and Ants Burgett '54 (pictured left) "thought up the party as a means "of breaking the monotony of reading period." The scheme won immediate approval from most Whitman girls, and the Head Resident finally acceded...
...Walt Whitman's career as a schoolmaster was short: after five years he turned to journalism, took jobs with the Brooklyn Star and Brooklyn Eagle. But he never lost his interest in U.S. schools, and in his editorial columns he became one of the most dedicated educational critics of his day. In a new book edited by Florence Freedman, Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (King's Crown Press; $3.50), present-day parents and teachers can find a few lessons in the columns Walt Whitman wrote...
...Cluttered & Tangled." To ex-Schoolmaster Whitman, U.S. education in the mid-19th Century was bogged down in "precedent, old times, and respectability," was "cluttered and tangled up with a thousand senseless notions and stupidities." Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and nervous, reduce the spirits where they are too high, and transform impertinence and obstinacy to mildness and soft obedience." Schools had become "penitential purgatories," and teachers "identified with a dozen unpleasant . . . associations-a sour face, a whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour...
...Walt Whitman, education was more than "a heap of disjointed facts ... a proper education unfolds and develops every faculty in its just proportions . . . Its aim is ... to polish and invigorate the mind-to make it used to thinking and acting for itself, and to imbue it with a love for knowledge." Unfortunately, Walt Whitman noted sadly, the minds of too many students were more stunted than nourished by the sort of "rule and rote" he had seen: too often, said he, "the windows have not been thrown open, and all lies hushed and dark...