Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, it has 70 guards covering 200 shifts a week. Its function has greatly expanded, and it patrols several administrative and classroom buildings--William James, the Science Center and laboratory buildings--in addition to the Houses. Every weeknight there are 12 student guards on patrol, and 25 are on duty Friday and Saturday nights. Last year Harvard spent $125,000 on the program, and this year it will cost considerably more...
...gets to use what he wishes or gets nothing. That makes for hard choices in allocating dwindling supplies. In Paola, Kans., last month, the local gas company chose to stop servicing the town's elementary school for three weeks. On the last day of school before Christmas vacation, classroom temperatures plummeted...
...their first year in a grade. Under the new New York City policy, says School Chancellor Irving Anker, pupils who are "left back" will be given "individually prescribed programs" based on their deficiencies and needs. Skeptical New York City teachers applaud his intentions, but many doubt that the money, classroom space and skilled teachers are available to give slow readers the attention they so desperately need...
...junior high, she was the terror of my existence. I saw her in winter with her hand-knit beanie cum pastee sparkles on the front. I saw her in spring when the beanie changed into a circa aught six auto veil. She minced from Falcon to classroom, classroom to Falcon. I never saw her go to the ladies room, the cafeteria, or the teachers' lounge. She ate lunch at her desk in pristine splendour and delicately licked her Harpy-like fingers after she concluded her meal. I used to watch her through the window in the door during junior high...
Like Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch, Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt is one of those didactic dramatists who regard the theater as a classroom, the stage as a blackboard, the pen as a pointer and the playgoers as barely educable dolts. These playwrights take a dim view of man, dividing the species into two arbitrary categories: predators and prey, the fleecers and the fleeced. No one would deny that such characters are abundantly present in life, but to see the entire pattern of human behavior in these terms is one-eyed vision. As propounded in The Visit, currently being revived...