Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blake Moore took his LSAT's, he had every intention of beginning the paper chase immediately after graduation. The next fall, however, he found himself not in a classroom studying legal briefs, but in the locker room studying football plays...
...takes a study break in the lobby of Harvard's Langdell Library, Moore explains that in many ways his football career helped him prepare for the competitive atmosphere of the law classroom...
Doolittle, 53, says that he never planned to teach students how to write--in fact, he says he "hadn't seen the inside of a classroom between 1953 and last year." But three of his five sons went to Harvard--Timothy '84, Ted '86, and Matthew '90--and when Ted was a sophomore, he told his dad that he enrolled in a writing course taught by an actual writer...
...technique at the school is to raise animals in the classroom. When they mate, the children understand that they produce babies of the same species -- a smooth introduction to sex education known to every farm child. Nurse Mary Tang teaches anatomy to fifth- and sixth-graders and answers explicit questions, but she does not bring up subjects like abortion and birth control. That is the only formal part of the instruction; most of the rest of the sex- ed time is spent in rap sessions, fielding questions about sex and trying to build personal responsibility...
...attempting to come to terms with their daunting circumstances. Kerry Alston, 24, looks like thousands of other city students as he saunters through Manhattan's crowds on his way to a computer class, a bookbag slung jauntily over one shoulder. But when he leaves the refuge of the classroom, Alston returns to the buzzing confusion of the Fort Washington Armory in New York City, an enormous room that sleeps as many as 900 men. Alston's luck went bad after he lost his job as a security guard last July and then had to leave his apartment after a dispute...