Word: scholasticism
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¶ After 14 months of bitter bickering, the Lake County (Fla.) school board finally closed the case of Fruit Picker Allan Platt's five school-age, part-Indian children who were falsely declared to be Negroes and were thus denied the right to attend a white school (TIME, Dec...
First Joan. From histrionic heaven she was sent straight to scholastic hell: a better-class boarding school in New England. "It was all girls." Next fall she persuaded her family to send her to Miss Hewitt's Classes in Manhattan, where she took Broadway for her major subject. For...
Beinhorn's interest lies in American history. Hearing authorities on American history and checking through some of the available reference material are of "immense help," he says, in the preparation of his Ph.D. thesis on the European view of the American revolution. Beinhorn maintains that it is a misconception to...
President Jordan explained that the new emphasis on the South was a result of studies of scholastic standings of applicants for the class of 1958, which showed that "as a geographical group, the girls from the South had amazingly high and superior records."
¶Promptly at 9 a.m. local time one day last week, 60,000 high-school seniors trooped into classrooms all over the U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, took up special black electrographic pencils, and addressed themselves to answering 115 questions. Sample: "In a certain factory the rate of absenteeism for the...