Word: classes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hand for Students. For 35 years Gus Klausner had guided students through the bewildering columns of cost accounting and budgetary control, never tired of showing the way. "I may be as sick as can be," he said, "but once I get into class I forget myself." Each student, no matter how bright or dull, was Gus's personal concern: "Perhaps never again will anybody take him by the hand and say 'Look, this is the way you must do.' So that is the way in which I can serve...
Britain's famous old public schools have long given their graduates a first-class education as well as an old school tie. The trouble is that there are just not enough Etons, Harrows and Winchesters within the reach of the boys who could benefit from them. In 1944, Parliament put a clause in its new Education Act urging Britain's towns and counties to get busy and set up tax-supported boarding schools of their...
...Comers. Ottershaw's students came from all income levels. (Some parents could afford the full tuition and boarding fees; others were unable to pay anything at all.) Dockers' sons and farmers' sons from three-R grade schools were mixed in with middle-class youngsters who had been learning Latin since they were seven. To provide for all comers, Foot and the council set a scale of boarding fees that varies from ?110 to nothing, depending on family income, a curriculum with choices ranging from the classics to courses in science and vocational training. For each...
...discipline. From magazines and British comic books they had definite ideas of what they should be up to: they were all set for dormitory raids, pillow fights and secret midnight feasts. Foot's solution of the discipline problem: a student council made up of elected representatives from each class, supplemented later by the venerable system of student prefects. To level off social differences, he required all boys to do their share of tidying up, put a half-crown (35?) ceiling on weekly spending money. "We don't want any feeling of sheep and goats," said Foot. He settled...
...piled up a fortune in oil, handsome Percy Richardson went in for bourbon, Negro women, homosexuals and, finally, suicide. Byron was content to be a small-town lawyer and live in a cottage. Mrs. Richardson died of cancer, unreconciled to the fact that her daughter had deserted her class...