Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...buckled down as a seamstress and sewing teacher. While Mitsumasa was in school, he got a job copying documents, each week gave his pay envelope to his mother, unopened. He went on to the Naval Academy, where he was a popular mediocrity. He finished at the centre of his class - 60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never get enough to eat. My credo: self-respect-I believe in myself. My weak points: none. My favorite book: Momotaro [a heroic fairy tale]. My favorite dish...
...Swarthmore honor students, chosen by examinations at the end of sophomore year, have seminars instead of classes their last two years, study independently, are finally examined (written and oral exams) by outside educators. To carry out his second aim, Dr. Aydelotte, who is himself a crack golfer and onetime footballer, ruled that every Swarthmore boy and girl must spend some time on the college playing fields. At the same time he took Swarthmore out of bigtime athletics, restricted its games to teams in its own class. Unknown at Swarthmore are long, irksome hours of practice, subsidization of athletes. Swarthmore boys...
...morning, shortly after 10 o'clock, a message from the principal's office came to Mrs. L. M. Smith's eighth-grade math class at Monroe High School, Rochester, N. Y. John W. Clark, 13, brightest boy, was wanted home immediately. He was to be excused for the rest of the day. For Mme Kirsten Flagstad of the Metropolitan Opera Company wanted John Clark to have lunch with...
...mindedness. Auden admires a hand-picked selection of the Great-his criticisms of them are acute, his praise of them generally mystagogic; he admires Love-but writes no loving poem; socially, he is a run-of-the-parlor pink-but he is a nearly bloody hater of the upper-class English "old gang." By birth Auden belongs with them; and he sees a worm at their root that he would like to get his hands...
...Class of 1940: Charles H. Coombs Jr., Brockton; Edward M. Davis Jr., Winter Park, Fla.; Edward A. C. Dubois, Somerville; Richard S. Fogelman, Pompton Lakes, N. J.; Louis Hartz, Omaha, Nebr.; Thomas V. Healey, Worcester...