Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plain is more of the same, although here and there the pickle-barrel philosopher scrapes bottom. The new book offers nothing as trenchant as Only in America's "Vertical Negro Plan," which solves the problem of painless school integration by removing seats from classroom desks-on the theory that white Southerners think nothing of associating with Negroes when they are standing in elevators, supermarket queues, and the like. In the second collection, there is more blandness than bite, although Golden does return to the subject of segregation: "Free of charge, I offered the $64,000 people an idea...
Last week, in a surprising policy switch, the Burmese government of General Ne Win turned to the U.S. for help in two top-priority projects: constructing a badly needed four-lane highway from Rangoon to Mandalay and adding classroom space for 7,000 students at the University of Rangoon. The move was cheered even by Burma's original apostle of neutralism, Ex-Premier...
...climax of my story. Many, like myself, have traveled a thousand miles to seek truth from these men of the ivory towers, because we believe in their mastery of subject matter. To date, I have been exceedingly gratified with their wealth of knowledge, and with their presentation. In the classroom I have found the professors effervescing with scholarship, and daily demonstrating that, to them, "The work is play for mortal stakes." Yes, they stand there in the heat of the day enjoying the salutary sweat...
Leaders of student extra-curricular activities yesterday agreed on two main reasons that attract undergraduates to outside activities at the symposium "Education Beyond the Classroom...
...view implies a fairly elitist view of knowledge and philosophy; but there is agreement by both Demos and Dawson that the student who is qualified to come to Harvard is able, in Demos's phrase, to have "his religion buffeted by the winds of reason." The split between classroom exposition and classroom conversion is only one factor contributing to the College relativism. Demos says that in Harvard's case 'Veritas means that we are committed to nothing." Yet even those members of the University who are "committed men," who, like Demos, do believe, often see the critical examination of ideas...