Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presence of women in Harvard classes was so new that professors and section men didn't know quite what to do with us. They never took our attendance, they never assigned us seats. We therefore sat wherever there was an empty seat, often in the back of the classroom, sometimes, on the floor...
...following term to make up her failing grade. I don't know whether the Radcliffe administration, headed by President Wilbur K. Jordan, a Harvard professor, ever confronted the Harvard administration for tolerating such blatant sexism, but I never heard that Mr. Kemp was reprimanded, nor that he changed his classroom style...
Outside of the classroom, Sagan says Bellah was "very much involved with politics" as an avowed Communist and a member of the Harvard Liberal Union...
...these days, not everyone is on the Vice President's bandwidth. His biggest high-tech achievement to date is a program to wire every classroom and library in the country. He has heralded it as "a turning point that [will] transform the shape of America." But right now, the program is under assault from Congress as an out-of-control entitlement engineered by an out-of-control bureaucracy. Which does not do much for Gore's reputation as the architect of reinventing government. Even more ominous is another threat: starting this summer, phone companies that were ordered...
...program is not without its powerful supporters, both in and out of the classroom. Silicon Valley, whose executives Gore is ardently courting, is particularly enthusiastic about the idea of wiring the vast, untapped market that Andrew Blau of the Benton Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies the social impact of technology, describes as "like China within our borders." To enlarge this new customer base, companies have offered seminars, free software and help with the applications that schools must make to receive the funding. Industry sources have estimated that $2 billion spent on wiring schools produces as much as $6 billion...