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Flower Sunday, on the first Sabbath Chapel, further helps the freshmen to lose "that dreadful feeling." After a fire-and-brimstone minister sent one of the first freshmen classes away weeping from his wages-of-sin sermon, founder Henry Durant insisted that the first Sunday sermon be on "God is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Traditions Run Rampant at Waban; Once Started, They Keep Rolling On | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

Just to make sure, he decided last fall to start David in school a year early, even though North Carolina law forbids pupils to enter before they are six. At first, no one was the wiser, and David became one of the best pupils in the first grade. Then one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Case of the Growing Boy | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

In London, half a dozen able staffers-most of them stout Socialists-have also quit, as fed up as Editor Chapman. Said Gordon Boshell, who had been hired to pep up the Herald's dreary feature page but left to freelance: "The paper doesn't want zip and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Herald's Birthday | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

"Dreadful Hodgepodge." The first blow fell on Newsman Chapman a year ago when the job of foreign editor was abolished. Last summer, the Herald achieved the doubtful honor of being the only big British daily without a correspondent in Korea. (To cover the Far East, the Herald has one string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Herald's Birthday | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

The Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers applauded Miss D'Oyly: "Your courage is a lesson to us men . . ." Added the British Housewives' League: "How brave of you to take that dreadful ewe meat to the House of Commons!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plenty of Sleeping Pills | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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