Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government-sponsored Mobile Information Teams, carrying everything but a merry-go-round. While some teammates distributed schoolbooks, pencils and pictures of King Bhumibol, others tended a queue of sick peasants. Over all blared the tape-recorded music of Thailand's bawdy mohlam singers, singing of love in the classroom and warning villagers to "Diversify Your Crops!" or "Concentrate on the Three Ms: Muu, Maay and Mapraw [pigs, silkworms and coconuts...
Lyndon Johnson's shift to politics was prompted in part by the advice of College President Evans, who saw Johnson's possibilities as limitless if he were properly pushed by stiff competition. "A teacher is a law unto himself in the classroom," he told Johnson. "His views aren't challenged very much-you don't have to develop to your full potential." That advice proved just as beneficial to U.S. education as it was to L.B.J. For Johnson still insists: "The basis of our whole future as a nation and a civilized society depends...
...Administration at Harvard has recognized that a "college education" need not be limited officially to four years in the classroom-that a year away from academics may furnish an opportunity for intellectual and emotional growth, "development of character and motivation." Under the present law, however, it has been unable to grant draft exempt status to students taking a leave of absence. Senior tutors may "clarify" the student's status in a letter or phone calls to the local draft board. But as the conscription of several students revealed last year, clarification does not constitute deferment...
...expansion will include the construction of Faculty office wing to Langdell Hall and a new classroom building between, Wyeth Hall and Langdell's International Legal Studies wing...
...committee also suggested that the admissions, financial aid, and dormatory and placement offices be moved from their present quarters--a frame house on Everett St.--to the new classroom building. The Everett St. House would become apartments for visiting scholars, temporary appointees, and guests of the Law School. In addition, an entry in one of the dorms will probably be for foreign students and American students interested in international...