Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of about 500, mostly Negroes, who had gathered at the site of a new public elementary school at Lakeview Road on the city's East Side. They were there to protest construction of the school in the Negro neighborhood on grounds it would perpetuate segregation instead of furthering classroom integration...
...energetic entrance into the field of creative mathematics, the strange, unworldly specialty that he described brilliantly in I Am a Mathematician. Making his headquarters at M.I.T., he drifted from university to university, like a medieval scholar, but he remained almost a stranger in the vast world outside the classroom...
Aided by a small grant from Japan's Fisheries Resources Conservation Society, he assembled a classroom for baby trout. In the center of a glass tank 10 in. in diameter, he hung a 3 in. ring of bare wire with six short wires dangling from it. Inside the ring swam a 21-in. "fish" cut from a tin can. The ring and fish were charged with electricity of opposite polarity, thus creating a mild electric field inside the ring...
...Their Own Good. Hatchery-innocent rainbow troutlets, less than an inch long, were plopped into the classroom. With the current turned off, they swam about at random, brushing the wires and the tin fish. But when Kanayama switched on the current, they darted all over the tank, desperate to avoid the harmless but painful shock. "I never felt guilty for doing this," says Kanayama fondly. "It was all for their own good...
Giving up teaching was difficult for Lowe, despite his students' unwillingness to learn. He has always felt a strong sense of duty to the children of Roxbury, and he carried this earnestness beyond the classroom. Every day at 2:30, when school ended, Lowe went to the Roxbury Boys Club, where he served as a counsellor and monitor on a part-time basis. Usually he stayed at the Club until 6 p.m., although twice he worked there through midnight. This extracurricular association with the Club enabled Lowe to quit teaching without breaking off his work with children. Yesterday he became...