Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...father was a Maine Republican who moved to the village of Madisonville, Ohio (now a part of Cincinnati), where father Sawyer was a school principal. With a record of good marks in high school, Charles, in 1905, went to Oberlin College. There, helping to pay his own expenses, he negotiated the four-year course in three years, went on to the Cincinnati Law School, where he won almost every scholarship prize that was offered. He placed first out of 193 students in the bar exams, set up as a barrister and promptly ran, at 24, for the Cincinnati city council...
Intensive indoctrination of Marxism in schools has been recently stepped up. Pupils get heart-to-heart lectures from teachers : "Don't go to church, there is no God, come along with us. Otherwise you won't be able to go to school any more...
...Catholics have lost every school, orphanage, old folks' home or other type of refuge-in all, about 500 educational or charitable institutions. Many priests have been arrested for their sermons. A few months ago one was arrested in Zagreb because he told workers they ought to be married in church...
...from Berlin. After the blockade, in last summer's railroad strike, 200 West Berliners charged into the building, tore down pictures of Stalin. That was enough for the Russians: they moved their railroad officials into the Soviet sector, leaving only an automatic rail-telephone switchboard and a small school for railroaders in the Direktion; 600 offices stood empty...
...University Press estimates that it prints 45,000 separate copies of exams. Printing costs are borne by whatever faculty is sponsoring the test. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Law School account for most of the Press's examination business...