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Juniors and seniors would be valuable advisers by virtue of their direct involvement in College life. They could supply first-hand information about some courses and would know about many others through their connections in the Houses. Perhaps even more important than evaluating specific courses, the undergraduate proctor could advise on the general way to approach one's studies, having lived through two or three years of exams and papers. The way a student goes about learning, and the way he shows what he's learned to those that judge him are skills of experience; being able to consult someone...
...that state government was effective," he said, "we set out to redefine universal education; sectors of society were being left out by the education system." Born and raised in Laurinburg, North Carolina, where his father was a hardware merchant and his mother taught school for 40 years, Sanford experienced first-hand the difficulties of small-town education. He describes himself as "one who never had private education, except one semester of Bible at Presbyterian Junior College...
...consider the protest a failure, though the government has not changed its position. "Many families in Madrid had first-hand reports of what went on; when they say what the newspapers said about it they realized perhaps for the first time, that the Spanish press lies...
What are the implications of this analysis for the editors and readers of this newspaper, when it appears likely that even we will be sent to learn about the great puzzle first-hand? After his speech in Lowell Lecture Hall, Oglesby was assailed by questions: you have brought us into black despair, what should we do practically and now? He admittes that his movement, and others of the radical left, do not have a full answer to that question. But he suggests that students begin by witholding their intellectual skills from those parts of society which they feel...
...case was much stronger than in the Anniston trial. It was the already-familiar story told in damning detail by Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant planted in the Ku Klux Klan, who testified that he rode with the killers when they gunned down Mrs. Liuzzo. Despite his first-hand testimony, juries in two state trials had failed to convict Collie LeRoy Wilkins, 22, on murder charges. The significant difference in federal court last week was that Wilkins and two fellow Klansmen, Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville Eaton, 41, were prosecuted under an 1870 federal statute that makes...