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...Manhattan lecture, Dr. Robert J. Havighurst assailed this angry band of skeptics as "non-responsibles" who were distorting the truth about the urban schools and imperiling reasonable hopes for improving them. A visiting professor of urban education at Fordham University, Havighurst argued that outraged accounts of ghetto education are convincing the public that the schools are in a state of inexorable decay. In fact, he answered, today's city schools are superior to those of 1920, 1940 and 1960. Their textbooks and curriculums are better designed, their teachers are better educated, classes are smaller...
...little as $25, and a workable 16-mm. camera can be had for as little as $40. McLuhan-age educators, moreover, welcome this form of creative endeavor. Some foresee the day when film training will be an accepted and universal part of education. Says Father John Culkin, head of Fordham's Center for Communications: "Students ought to be learning the fundamentals in grade school-early high school at the latest-so that when they finally get to college, they have an opportunity to blossom out, without worrying about the mechanics...
Harvard's only win in the meet came in the two-mile relay. Jeff Huvelle, Dave McKelvey, Trey Burns, and Roy Shaw pounded around the course in 7:34.4, edging out Holy Cross and Fordham, who set the meet record in the event last year...
...board of directors, composed of student leaders from all parts of the country, went to work to assure involvement of as many students on as many campuses as possible. On the board are representatives from the University of California at Berkeley, Kansas State Teachers College, University of Texas, Fordham University, University of Wisconsin, University of Utah, University of Tennessee, Michigan State, Yale, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Oregon. They and Harris, who was named executive director of the program, feel strongly that a large vote will be sure proof of the political responsibility and maturity of students...
...With It. There was also a succinctly honest and even witty tone to the eulogy by Jesuit Father Robert Gannon, president emeritus of Fordham University and author of Spellman's biography. "In life, our cardinal archbishop did not look like the great man that he was," said Father Gannon. "He was never a great scholar, or a great orator, or a great writer either. He spent his life doing things for God, for his country and his neighbor that only a great man could...