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What is taking the place of these traditional courses? Points out Latimer: "Group action subjects" which the student can often bull his way through without cracking a book. "We have gotten away from individual effort . . . By permitting the high schools to become the vocational bargain basements of education, we have insulted the student's intelligence and encouraged mediocrity by prescribing mediocre subject matter as an incentive for mediocre minds...
...minutes the first morning. Before he left Toledo, the President indulged one of his impulses. He telephoned a twelve-year-old girl, Patricia Gilbert, to thank her for a good-luck medal she had mailed him. He found that Patricia's gift was really heartfelt: she had gotten the medal straight from Hopalong Cassidy...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). State of the Union, with Margaret Sullavan, Joseph Gotten...
Brown came roaring back, however, by swamping Rhode Island, 35-0. Princeton, undefeated at the time, with its ace Royce Flippin leading the League in every department, was edged by Brown, 21-20 the next week. No sooner had the Bruins gotten high recognition in the East however, than a weak Temple team upset them 19-14. But in its last two efforts, Brown has rebounded with a 34-6 defeat of Lehigh, and a 40-7 rout of Springfield...
...week's end some of the early-season sluggards had gotten their second wind. Maryland, last year's mythical champ, was back in the winning columns after beating South Carolina, 20-0; Texas came from behind to tie S.M.U., 13-13. But the sure-shot favorites were still running into rough going, and the list of unbeaten, untied teams was dwindling fast. Now, among major colleges, only Oklahoma, Ohio State, U.C.L.A., Miami (Fla.), Arkansas and Cincinnati are left. Few people would bet on their chance to hang on long in this kind of a season...