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...potential avenues had been explored. But as the season unfolded with him on the sidelines, the itch to play again returned with a little prodding from Dick Emerson, the head athletic trainer, and others helping his rehabilitation. With the return of that desire, Cremarosa began exploring possible means to attain that...
Sure enough, Old School (Knopf; 195 pages) soon begins revealing the painful realities beneath its chivalric trappings. The nameless narrator, an outsider desperate to attain the "careless gentility" of his well-born schoolmates, makes a terrible mistake and is expelled. The "sure and finished" teachers prove to be mortals with broken marriages and sham credentials. Recent graduates fizzle out or die young...
...content students study. Considering the various “non-white” influences which significantly pervade Western thought, this is a lofty task. And it’s all the more reason for such a curriculum to be multifaceted and worldly in nature, so that Harvard students both attain cultural literacy and graduate with a keen understanding of the significance of that literacy...
When asked during the question and answer session if “the means justify the ends”—if Johnson’s beneficent legislation justified the ruthless tactics he employed to attain power—Caro did not give a definitive response...
While he repeatedly advocated strong city-wide curriculum standards, incumbent Alan C. Price said that tailoring instruction to fit the needs of individual students would be the way for Cambridge to attain that goal...