Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...like parents," he began, "who do not make unreasonable demands upon us." They decidedly do not include the parents who once told him, "Johnny is a very sensitive boy. If he misbehaves, please spank the boy next to him"; or the one who "wanted to know what the school intended to do about her child's studying with the radio going." They do include "parents who make possible for their children quiet, concentrated study . . . It means radios and television sets...
...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...
...first place, the characteristic campaign letter-to graduates, nobles, prelates and merchants-was admirably blunt. If the money was to repair a building, the writer left nothing to the imagination. "No one dares to enter the building," ran one appeal for the school of canon law. "It is surprising that the wind does not bring it down, for the foundations are so far gone as to be beyond repair...
Then came the cajolery. "For example," reported Professor McMahon, "the Bishop of London read that his name would be associated with the building of the divinity school as Solomon's name was with the temple at Jerusalem . . . The Black Monks were . . . flatteringly, if untruthfully, told that 'in fact, the University owes its foundation...
Last April, Orchestra Manager John R. Woolford commissioned Martha to compose the dance, with new music by a composer of her own choice. She picked her old collaborator, William Schuman, president of Manhattan's Juilliard School, who wrote the music for her Night Journey three years...