Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union incorporated its grievances into seven specific demands and threatened an open-ended strike if administrators failed to respond. With no sign of recognition by March 19 from President Bok or Franklin L. Ford, then acting dean of the Faculty, Union members walked off the job, began picketing all classroom buildings, and waged campaigns to gain sympathizers among undergraduates and Faculty members...
...expend most of their energy promulgating ideas which they experience only at second hand. Kristol quotes Robert A. Nisbet, a shrewd observer of the academic scene, who has estimated that a majority of all academics in the universities in this country "have so profound a distaste for the classroom and for the pains of genuine scholarship or creative thought that they will seize upon anything... to exempt themselves respectably from each...
...live near the Dunster library, you will be bothered by the frequent concerts held there, and that the House seems to have "fragmented into cliques." Our lives have not been trivial and meaningless, but the yearbook suggests that life in the Houses is an endless yo-yoing from classroom to lunchline, from library to pinball-machine. The writers seem compelled to distinguish their House from the others, and then can only come up with commonplaces about architecture, student stereotypes, and food. Food...
Clearly there is a financial burden for the parents, since most public schools consider Mongoloids only marginally capable of coping with a classroom situation, and therefore deny them entrance. Most institutions contend that these children are at best merely "trainable" or "educable." However, it is of particular interest that no single religious or socio-economic group has a monopoly on couples who refuse consent for necessary surgical correction in such cases...
...authority and its concurrent responsibilities. Centuries ago the delegation of that responsibility to an individual whom we would be quick to condemn as a primitive medicine man stemmed from his possession of some sort of divine right. Today the physician's privilege to practice results from years of expensive classroom education and extensive clinical training. And yet, the modern physician's privilege--one that we would say is based upon more objective criteria than that of the early medicine man--must now be reexamined. For we must delineate where his legal prerogatives end and where his moral responsibilities begin...