Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skiddy von Stad '38, dean of Freshmen, who has jurisdiction over the proctor system, said last night that he is opposed to such a revision. "It isn't difficult to learn the specific things an advisor needs to know," he said. "What makes our men especially valuable is their enthusiasm and experience dealing with younger...
...Servant Church. Hierarchical enthusiasm for the strike has been a cross for the ministers and priests of Delano, who have tried to stay neutral between the growers and vineyard workers-and have been under considerable pressure to stay neutral on the growers' side. After Archbishop McGucken endorsed the march, one vineyard spokesman warned that "the church leaders had better start looking for other financial means to carry out their radical theories." But now that Schenley has agreed to accept the union, most of the vineyards are expected to follow suit. Delano's largest grower, Di Giorgio Fruit Corp...
...leaders of the Manhattan-based National Research Council on Peace Strategy, which issues statements on foreign policy, they feel that they consulted enough China scholars on the wording of their paper, and that they circulated it sufficiently. No other U.S. newspaper, however, shared the Times's enthusiasm for the document. If they ran anything on it at all, most papers carried a much shorter Associated Press story that coupled the scholars' recommendations with similar ones made by Senator Fulbright. Even many of the papers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service ran the A.P. version...
Sensory Impact. Enthusiasm is just as high at Washington's all-Negro Scott Montgomery School, where three-fourths of the students' families earn less than $3,000 a year, and half have only one parent at home. The films, say's Negro Principal Nathaniel Dixon, let the school "take these children to places where they have never been-to distant lands, to the outer limits of space, to the world beneath the sea, to farm and factories." He finds that "the sensory impact of motion, sound and color" stimulates slow learners. Besides that, first-graders are proud...
...favorite teaching methods. When dinner is over, he transplants the whole company across the courtyard to his lodgings, where, aided by beer, the discussion flows on (beer is a tool which Chalmers skillfully employs--if interest wanes he subtly introduces another case. The man seems to have an unflagging enthusiasm for free-ranging discourse with students. Barney Frank, the assistant senior tutor, recounts that "the only time I incurred his displeasure was when I tried to break up one of the sessions at a quarter to eleven...