Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because many of its houses possess that same unwelcome characteristic of its classroom buildings--old age--Harvard limits disabled students in their housing choices. Drafts, who lives in a dormitory at the Middlesex County Hospital in Waltham, had no choice at all. The chairman of transfer students' admissions rejected his request for an on-campus room because Harvard did not have adequate facilities and because he lived nearby anyway. Drafts feels the decision was probably best for him but adds, "I have a sneaky feeling, though, not living here makes me miss a lot." He proposes that Harvard either establish...
...sick and tired of hearing Linda Ronstadt complain about the priests and nuns who taught her. Having taught for 35 years myself and reading about some of the stunts she pulled in the classroom, I get the idea she was a pain...
More than 90% of Grambling's students come from poor families, and Grambling itself is not much richer. Modern six-story dorms have replaced the converted prison barracks that once housed students, and new classroom buildings have sprouted in what was once farm land. Yet Grambling still looks like a poor cousin of the originally all-white Louisiana Tech. University, only three miles away...
...education, more than 75% of the children reported that they liked school and a whopping 90% said they approved of their teachers and classmates. But all is not idyllic in the classroom either. About two-thirds of the children worry about tests, an equal number feel ashamed of mistakes, and more than half object to classroom disorder and unruliness (never, or so they said, perpetrated by themselves). And, it seems, parents are still wielding the stick. More than 75% of black children and 66% of whites say that their mothers want them to be "one of the best students...
...sportswriter, "the lawyer is the great translator" who should strive to make legal principles clear to the general public. Kamisar has churned out many articles for magazines and newspapers, sometimes working through the night when he is pursuing a good idea. He is a witty performer in the classroom, cajoling, infuriating, charming his students-all the while, he says, "trying to develop a certain kind of mind, a legal mind, that inquires, analyzes, organizes and discriminates." Kamisar sees the law as "the nervous system of civilization, a never-ending process, constantly changing and never finished." He himself does not practice...