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...rely heavily on "respectful disagreement"-tantalizing the professor who pines for ardent student protest. Really daring grade grubbers go much farther. "If his poli-sci prof is an outspoken liberal," says one Yaleman, "the imaginative con man adopts a fascist interpretation in his classwork. Since most profs like to compare themselves to Voltaire, they will give the Jittie fascist every benefit of the doubt...
More often than not, the study of TIME goes far beyond mere classroom work in current events. A teacher in an Illinois high school, with pupils who come largely from rural homes that do not receive a daily newspaper, found that use of the magazine in her classwork "opened up the world to whole families." At Regis High School in Denver, the Rev. Donald H. Miller, S.J., has used TIME in teaching medieval and ancient history. "TIME," he wrote, "represents to me an ideal which I hold out to my history class -an understanding of contemporary events in a historical...
...fixing." But he has done more than his share, and now he says: "I'm going to retire, period." Antioch's W. Boyd Alexander, 65, was nominally vice president and dean of faculty at the offbeat Ohio school (founded by Horace Mann), where students alternate between regular classwork and jobs far off campus. In fact, he was Antioch's "hidden president" for nearly three decades-the man who kept the academic fireworks safe and sane. Alexander began as a carpenter, switched to teaching math and industrial arts. Twice acting president, he guided five Antioch presidents in more...
...twice-married divorcee with a strong but as yet impermanent connection with Actor Rip Torn, who played her lover in Strange Interlude. She lives in a Greenwich Village apartment and works all week long at the Studio, taking on a heavy schedule of classwork on top of the 27 hours a week she spends onstage...
...rotating dairy crew milks the school's 70 cows, meets the other boarders at 7:30 breakfast. After tidying their rooms, the youngsters attend chapel, join the day students in regular classwork until midafternoon. Then the boarders get cracking again. The boys polish floors, mow lawns, repair buildings, haul garbage, plow the fields. Girls swarm into the boys' dormitory with mops and pails, cook dinner using produce from the school's 350-acre truck garden. After dinner: study hall, lights out by 10:30 at the latest. Saturday morning is for more work; Sunday hikes exercise those...