Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...maroon jeep station wagon, came as a surprise. New Haven scuttlebutt had been tossing around the name of Secretary of State Dean Acheson ('15) and others. President-Elect Griswold seemed as surprised as anybody. Said he: "It was so sudden I've had no time to make plans. My wife is bearing up bravely ... I feel fine...
...eventually gave him the same nickname that early Denver gave Sligoman Gold-rick, "the Professor." School was his life. In the fifth grade, he fell for his first girl, a curly-headed classmate named Florence; 14 years later he married her. At the University of Illinois he decided to make education his career, later went on for a Ph.D. at Columbia University's Teachers College, the nearest thing to Mecca in modern education. There, the winds-of doctrine blew about him, from the fiery progressivism of Deweyite William Kilpatrick to the suave conservatism of William ("I'd rather...
...down at its old rolltop desk, he wasted no time finding out what Denver needed. In his conservative blue suits and quiet ties, he went around to P.T.A. groups, called meetings of teachers and principals to talk things over. He persuaded the University of Denver to make a survey of his schools, then got a committee of 100 leading citizens to determine how much money the schools needed...
...cautious chairman. "Let me ponder that for a while, fellows," he would say when a ticklish problem came up. Often, chin in hand, he would seem to be thinking out loud ("Now, I'm just supposing that . . ."). Then, when he had weighed all the facts, he would make his decision...
...wants, abilities and needs. Explains Oberholtzer: "You can't give the same educational fare to all children, any more than you can give all Americans the same breakfast food every morning." Only by bending the curriculum to each pupil's needs, he argues, can the "schools make sense...