Word: assignments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After years of debate over how best to assign freshmen to the Houses, the Deans last spring pulled the worst possible compromise out of their hats. Beginning this year a nine-man Faculty committee, including four Deans, will make all decisions on the distribution of freshmen; neither students nor Faculty will be formally asked to state their preferences. If a freshman has a "substantial reason" for prefering one House over the others, he must write a letter to Dean Monro stating it. The Masters, similarly, will be "free to inform the committee of general manpower needs they would like...
...long lectures and labs, two educational devices of questionable value in which Harvard has unending faith. Small-group instruction, when available, is usually effective; lectures, on the other hand, tend to obscure general principles of their subject and confuse students with welters of detail. In general, professors do not assign reading; students are expected to dig out basic concepts on their own. It is perfectly possible to succeed with one good book and without spending the whole day in class...
...Crusade. To counteract the great conspiracy of the godless, Arrupe urged the council to draw up a basic plan for "worldwide coordinated action," to be followed by Catholics in a crusade against atheism, under "absolute obedience to the Pope." The Supreme Pontiff would then "assign various fields of labor to everyone, in order that the entire people of God may give itself vigorously to this task...
...minutes. Why her violent reactions? Explains Claudia: "My strong opinions about anything bad originate from the fact that it makes me suffer so much. It makes me desperate. It kills me." When she retires, the Trib will pay a high compliment to her energy and enterprise. It will assign two men to cover the beat that until now has been handled by one woman...
...these kids of the tragic view of life," says English Teacher Bruce MacDonald at Yale. "They know life is tough." Typically, the schools get the students up at 5:30 a.m., work them until noon, cart them off on tours of civic and his torical sites in the afternoon, assign three hours of homework, and provide time for the kids to have long talk sessions with advisers. Many of those who show promise will be given preferential admission if they apply to the same college after high school graduation. Integrated Seagulls. The main challenge to teachers...