Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to the Institute last February after serving six years as Director of Finance for the State of California. He is virtually unknown to Boston residents. But Daniel P. Moynihan, head of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, said last night that among people who know public policy, "there aren't five men in the country with his reputation...
...think there's a clear possibility Johnson can be denied the nomination," McCarthy said. "People who say we can win all the primaries and still be short of delegate votes aren't taking into account our other efforts. We're seeking delegates also in non-primary states...
...Germanic and Romance Language Departments voted at separate meetings this week not to limit the number of pass-fail students who enroll in basic German, French, Spanish, and Italian. Similar decisions on other Harvard courses aren't likely to follow soon--since the fourth-course pass-fail legislation approved by the Faculty Dec. 5 leaves the option of limiting passfail enrollment open to individual course instructors...
Throughout the sequence, Uncle T listened with agitation. "The weird thing about this," he exclaimed, "is that Spellman just died. This is hitting 'em right in the face, and a lot of people really aren't going to digit. It's going to infuriate a lot of people...
Teachers who have adjusted to the new courses frequently run up against parental misunderstandings. Since the discovery approach accents the learning of basic principles rather than concrete facts-such as learning the parts of an internal-combustion engine or memorizing the table of elements-parents complain that their children "aren't learning anything." A more serious problem is evaluating a child's performance in discovery classes. One study showed that many students who made A's and B's in traditional physics courses slipped to C's and D's in the new courses...