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Lectures by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus, and Edward O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, will highlight the weekend. These professors will speak on topics in their fields of expertise and try to simulate the classroom experience for parents...
...Classroom punishment ranges from tongue-lashing to old-fashioned paddling for a repeat offense. Despite the drastic methods, Musko tries to get across to students that the program is a last-ditch effort run by people who care. Says he: "These kids have passed the 'please' point; they are tough. We have to make them feel that someone cares. And we will use any method to do this." So far, he says, the reform by stress seems to be working. More than half of the 90 students who have passed through the course have remained in school...
Much of the abiding charm of the evening rests in two sentimental yet spirited courtships. Doing a bike repair job for Daisy (Virginia Vestoff), Frank falls in love with her. Daisy is a teacher who poignantly wonders how the quiet lessons of the classroom can ever erase from little children's minds the terrorist traumas of the streets. In flashback, Frank's grand father woos Kitty (Maria Tucci), an ardent prototypical feminist...
Even if the teacher writes a good recommendation, that involvement stops outside the classroom...
...alien breed to most Americans. Reports TIME Correspondent John Quirt: "Advances in chip making have come so fast that recent engineering graduates are almost the only ones around who fully understand the technology. In one facility I visited, technicians looked as if they had come straight from a college classroom - and many of them...