Word: classroom
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The first of a two-part series, "From Cradle to Classroom," takes a look at the education process that starts long before a child steps foot in a classroom...
...William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), was proud to lend his name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around...
...actual journalism, and that percentage is decreasing even further at some schools. "The four years of college," says Robert Beyers of Stanford University, "is such a short time to acquire an education that it should not be devoted to learning skills which can easily be acquired outside the classroom...
...have been planned with the hope of obtaining federal grants to cover as much as one-third of their estimated cost. Particularly vulnerable to Johnson's budget reductions are the new library planned by the Graduate School of Education, two buildings at the Law School designed to provide more classroom and office space, and a Chemistry-Biology building to be built in the new Science Center. The Graduate School of Design and the Widener underground annex might also lose federal grants in the budget pinch. Mather House, however, will be financed completely with funds raised during the Program for Harvard...
...University official said yesterday that the Education School's chances of getting money for its proposed library construction are "no more than 50-50." He said the Law School now has a "very slim chance" of obtaining federal funds for classroom construction...