Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout, the classroom is the center of the Law School. In college, a student who went to all his lectures was an oddity. In the Law School, partly because of the perfect attendance habit of the non-Harvard graduates, a student who misses lectures is unusual. Besides running the risk of having one of the three or four professors whe reward poor attendance with an appropriately low grade, the truant student misses the most invigorating part of the school...
...right of students as well as faculty, and as one of the things that makes Harvard so exciting a place to be. Indeed, after two years of teaching politics in the college, I have become sufficiently unhappy at the excessively credulous attitude which the average undergraduate brings to the classroom to welcome any show of student skepticism, even if it borders on truculence...
...nation still urgently needs more teachers and classrooms, but much has already been done. Teachers' salaries rose 45% from 1950 to 1960, while the average increase for all jobs was 29%; the pupil-teacher ratio declined from 27.7 in 1954 to 25.7 in 1960; the classroom shortage eased even as enrollment rose. As for the dropout problem, only 53% of Americans in the 25-to-29 age bracket had completed high school in 1950; last year the figure...
...major speech since the July 26 anniversary of his 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks that started the Cuban revolution. There he stood last week before a crowd of 50,000 in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, meandering for hours about everything and nothing - poverty, classroom shortages, taxes, new houses, and the problem of bureaucrats who do "absolutely nothing." Then, amid the chatter, he dropped two electric statements that instantly set telephones jangling from Miami to Washington. Castro offhandedly promised to 1) let any Cuban with relatives in the U.S. depart from the Communist island free...
Timothy Leary, an LSD researcher relieved of his duties as a lecturer on Clinical Psychology two years ago for absence from the classroom, will return to talk about the drug tonight...