Word: schooling
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David Lloyd, 38, another Clifford protégé, is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Clifford found him working on the Democratic National Committee, turning out what Clifford thought was "stuff with real style." Now Lloyd, whose first novel will be published in the spring, puts some of that style into Harry Truman's pedestrian speeches...
...University of Brazil's Medical School, where Physician de Barros got his degree in 1923, he handed out diplomas to the graduating class. He strode off to inspect the Centro Adhemar de Barros, a free clinic which he supports; lunched with 200 taxi drivers, dined with Benedito Valladares, chief of President Dutra's copa e cozinha (pantry and kitchen) cabinet. At a churrasco (gaucho barbecue) in the working-class district of Penha, someone threw an egg, spattering yolk over Adhemar's shirt. Snorted Adhemar: "A Communist." He called twice on Dutra, attended Mass, visited headquarters...
...seven he was sent to St. James's School: "How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I made very little progress at my lessons and none at all at games...
...kept in the lowest form because he could not learn Latin and Greek, only English. "Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing." He is grateful to Harrow, and tries to be fair: "Harrow was a very good school." But Churchill cannot refrain from one last bite: "Most of the boys were very happy, and many found in its classrooms and upon its playing-fields the greatest distinction they have ever known in life...
...basic. For one thing, the average man now can let his children be educated; they are not needed immediately for productive work. More & more of their early years can be invested in education-which makes them more productive later on. In the 19th Century few children went beyond grammar school. Now some 40% of U.S. children go through high school, about 7% graduate from college. One important byproduct: more trained personnel for the research laboratories that are the reproductive organs of our technical culture...