Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Woman of Means, Peter Taylor wrote a mature and modest first book about a difficult boy-stepmother relationship. Hans Ruesch tried an offbeat background and brought off a vivid story of Eskimo manners & morals in Top of the World. Most polished of the preciousness school novels was A Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize...
...another development on the manpower question, Federal Security Administrator Oscar L. Ewing proposed Saturday that colleges accelerate their programs by eliminating summer vacations. He also asked that basic military training be included in high school curriculas...
Readiness through increased productive capacity rather than more stockpiling of soon-outmoded weapons must highlight America's mobilization policy, according to 18 Business School faculty members. In an article prepared for the January issue of the Business Review, the group analyzes this country's economic capacity for the present crisis...
...another development, Dean Cronkhite of Radcliffe Graduate School issued a statement Saturday that "the accuracy of the CRIMSON's story on the Radcliffe Graduate Center has never been questioned." Dean Small agreed...
...Your publication of the names on the "Reducators" list of 68 so-called "Communists, communist sympathizers or fellow travellers" (9/26/50) although advised by Professor Seavey of the Law School that the proposed publication was libelous. Note that the Cambridge City Council itself refused to publish the list, after City Solicitor Daly advised that it could not legally be given even to the nine City Councillors and the Chief of Police (10/20/50...