Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paper. Last week the House was at it again. On the Tory side, former Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft charged Labor with bad faith and suggested that it would soon cancel the TSR2 plane contract with British firms and buy U.S. planes instead. Thorneycroft read an account from the Daily Express in which Wilson, in an election speech, reportedly told aircraft workers that the TSR2 would not be abandoned, and that their jobs were safe...
...lower down the page-namely, the words he had actually used, which merely said that Labor would treat the TSR2 exactly as had the old Tory government. As Wilson repeatedly heckled him, Thorneycroft flung the paper across at the Prime Minister. Wilson threw it back, shouting "Since the Daily Express had the honesty, will you have it now and read those words?" Thorneycroft petulantly tossed the paper back, crying "You find it, you read it!" Wilson's riposte was: "Since you cannot read, I will do it for you." Having done so, Wilson once more hurled the paper...
...Today. The real needs lie in the area of teaching, not of curiculum, and will never be met by a system of course requirements. More attention must be given to the teaching of individuals and small groups where the student learns at the same time to think and to express himself in speech and writing. This is the aim of General Education Ahf and of most of the new developments in undergraduate education adopted by the Faculty in the past ten years, such as Freshman Seminars, Independent Study, and the sectioning of large departmental courses...
...designed to express student opinion to the Faculty about long range educational policy. Areas with which Ellis especially hopes the committee will deal include Harvard's exam system, the lecture-section system, and the general relationship between the college and the University...
...proposal is adopted, the HCUA will be split into two separate organizations: the Harvard Undergraduate Council to express student opinion on administrative matters, such as parietals and interhouse dining, and the Harvard Policy Committee to discuss long-range educational policy with the Faculty...