Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history (Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy), made a six-month tour of U.S. campuses* to find out. There were, he admitted, a few things that pleased him, such as the exhaustive approach to Russian studies (not matched in Britain) of Columbia University's Russian Institute. Yet on the whole, he reported in the current issue of Britain's Universities Quarterly, U.S. higher education offers more to be pitied than copied...
Accent on Quizzes. Wrote Beloff: "The habits of spoon-feeding that the school child acquires are not easily abandoned at the college level. Instruction by lecture and random discussion with the reading of prescribed passages from prescribed textbooks, the whole tested by examinations largely factual in character ... are hardly the way to encourage either independence of mind or maturity of judgment...
...their 16-year-old daughter, Betty, and three young sons, Charles, John and Edward, to a rambling, grey-shingled house on the ocean's edge at East Hampton, L.I., where Trippe likes to swim and surffish with the boys, exercising hard to work off tension. In winter the whole family occasionally goes skiing in a body...
This leaves about $500 per House which must be collected by May 1 to meet a deadline on legal assurance forms. If the money isn't raised by this time, the whole project will collapse...
...only the most complete purist would not have been pretty deeply affected by the whole thing. It is quite a privilege to be able to hear the Mass at all no matter what the interpretation. In fact, I think those who managed to get seats were among the luckiest people in the world yesterday. And if their standing ovation for all participants is any indication, they thought...