Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Consider the fact that each undergraduate pays $125 for every course he takes. In return for this he gets 30 lectures, a reading list, a library from which the professor has usually withdrawn the course texts, and a grader to read the examination he does not want to write. If more professors paused to consider the number of students they inspire daily, multiply that number by $3.00, and ask themselves whether their lecture was worth so much money, the course might come closer to its assessed value...
...examination has been attacked by freshmen, who call it "an invasion of privacy." Farnsworth pointed out, however, that "in the same terms, physical examinations are also an invasion of privacy," and continued that "although there was some amount of silent griping, only a few freshmen refused to write the examination." He emphasized that no one was forced to take the test...
Shyly genial Bachelor Inge, 44, winces at his colleagues who write plays primarily "to shock, to teach, to preach at. I hate a play that tells me what to think. I have to let the audience make up its own mind about my characters...
...Louis Star-Times when Tennessee Williams came to town in 1944. Inge interviewed Williams about playwriting, later went up to Chicago to see his The Glass Menagerie. Says Inge: "It was a momentous experience for me. I went back to St. Louis thinking, 'I've got to write a play...
Little Kelly Jean McCormick, the adopted daughter of Tacoma (Wash.) Psychologists Archie and Alma McCormick, was only 3½ when she came sobbing to her mother with an unusual complaint. Her closest friends, all aged five to seven, were learning to read and write, and bright (IQ 147) Kelly Jean wanted to go to school. "I'm so ignorant," cried she. "I can't stand it." The McCormicks decided that they would indeed send Kelly Jean to school-but not to any ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been...