Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...young Christopher to the beauties of English by reading to him from the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress. At eleven he wrote his first play, a farce, at twelve his first poem, at 14 his first verse play, never produced. Young Fry did not do well in school, stood last in his class in English...
Officials of Wellesley College this week announced with evident satisfaction the results of a survey of 457 freshmen on what made them pick the school in the first place. By far the greatest number (42%) specified Wellesley's academic standards. Other chief reasons: Wellesley's prestige, a Wellesley tradition among family or friends. Only two girls said it was because Wellesley is just twelve miles from Harvard, 14 miles from M.I.T...
...years (1933-43), Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn, watched the young Fords go by-Henry II, Benson and William, sons of Automagnate Edsel Ford. Hotchkiss had reason to be pleased with the way they got along. Henry ("Model T") made the editorial board of the Hotchkiss Record and the debating union. Benson was business manager of the literary magazine, and Bill captained the tennis team and served on the student council...
This week Hotchkiss had more reason to be pleased with the Ford boys than ever. The Fords had remembered some of the drawbacks of the school library. It was crowded into a single room of venerable Main Building and provided shelf space for only 8,000 books. This week, in memory of their father, the Fords and their mother gave Hotchkiss $350,000 to build a new library, something Hotchkiss has wanted for more than 20 years...
Wall Street has seldom seen a nimbler broken-field runner than 47-year-old Charles Allen Jr. A New York City boy who quit school at 15 to be a Stock Exchange messenger, Allen learned the Street's ways so well that he parlayed his pocket change into $15 million. With his younger brothers Herbert and Harold, he built the potent investment banking firm of Allen & Co. (TIME, Aug. 2,1948). They bought up and reorganized the Rockefellers' famed Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., Germany's war-forfeited American Bosch Corp., captured many another plum with their sharp...