Word: attendence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first 15 minutes of class consisted of a discussion of what should be done about class on Monday, which is both Pope Day and Yom Kippur. A show of hands displayed the fact that between 30 and 40 per cent of the class would not be able to attend the lecture on Monday, and would appreciate the class being moved to Friday. This seemed reasonable...
...school aids, and teachers were training to prepare themselves to deal with expected violence, and in part because no one was sure how many children would actually show up. Projected enrollment steadily shrank as parents insisted that children would either stay home or go to private schools rather than attend school with blacks. Catholic school enrollments swelled particularly quickly in Hyde Park and Mattapan, although parochial schools which accepted students fleeing integration did so against the orders of the Archdiocese of Boston...
Prospective skippers must pay a $25 annual membership fee to join the Harvard sailing club and use its boats. New members are also required to pass the 100-yd. swimming test at the IAB and to attend a rigging demonstration, during which launching and beaching procedures are explained. All beginners also will be given an on-the-water demonstration, as well as a basic sailing lecture...
...Geneva three years ago, the archenemies in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's civil war could not even agree on an agenda. The talks broke off after three stormy weeks. Thus the British officials who had persuaded Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa and his guerrilla foes from the Patriotic Front to attend a "constitutional conference" in London last week were cheered when the two sides agreed on an outline for the discussions. It had been adopted, an erudite Foreign Office spokesman gleefully announced, nemine contradicente (Latin for without any objection), on only the second day. The unexpectedly swift approval of the agenda...
BOSTON--For the second day in a row, white youths pelted buses carrying black students as they drove through South Boston to attend classes at the high school...