Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fellow aldermen weren't so understanding of the "professor." From the start, Douglas was a gadfly, a windmill-tilter, a nagging conscience and a sponsor of lost causes. He banged away at the corrupt school system, at excessive transit fares, at the enormous city budget. He published an audit of his city salary showing that he netted only $16.72 for the year after paying the expenses of office. The boys resented the implication that only a grafter could make ends meet...
...Binger was a graduate of Harvard Medical School (1914), he testified, and the author of three books on psychiatry. He had sat through all but one half day of Chambers' seven days of testimony at the first trial, ceaselessly tapping his fingers, and through one day of Chambers' testimony at the second. He had read some of Chambers' undergraduate writing, some of his translations, book reviews and an essay, The Devil, in the Feb. 2, 1948 issue of LIFE. Now, fortified with this research and his psychiatric training but without ever having talked to Chambers (unnecessary...
Naturally enough, the 3-ft. genius' favorite painter is Picasso, but his father tries to keep him away from museums ("I don't want him to be influenced"). At school the boy is not considered much of a painter, though he has won local renown as a poet with such lines as these...
...place and another, 31-year-old Headmaster Eric Johnson* of the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia had known many a badly behaved parent-the selfish, the complaining, the foolish. But there were some parents he and his teachers thought were wonderful. Last week, in his own Parents' Bulletin, he told what sort they were...
...year community colleges, which now teach about 10 percent of students above high school level, should be expanded to take 20 to 30 percent, Conant urged...