Word: classes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...English by reading to him from the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress. At eleven he wrote his first play, a farce, at twelve his first poem, at 14 his first verse play, never produced. Young Fry did not do well in school, stood last in his class in English...
Another objection is that the Trytten plan would lead to a grade race at colleges as students strived to stay in the required segment of their class. In pointing up holes in all the programs, Provost Buck, who backs Conant on U.M.S., refers to this result. As he explains, much of what Harvard stands for might go by the boards in a rat race...
...arguments used against the present deferments system--with local draft boards normally granting leave to men in the top half of their class--is that it can only produce around 750,000 soldiers a year. To keep a 3,000,000 man army more draftees are absolutely necessary. President Conant hopes to raise a larger army with his program granting no deferments...
...first class of the five-month course was held Tuesday night in the Central Square Y.M.C.A. Twenty-four sailors attended, and 200 more are expected to take part in the program before it is finished...
Impressions of the United States were hard to get--even from those in the advanced class--but the general impression the mariners managed to get across was that Americans are friendly while being intensely practical. They seemed impressed by the rapid pace of living and the large scale on which things are done in this country...