Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek government last week solemnly decreed that, under threat of punishment, Greek youngsters must henceforth give up their seats on buses to clergymen, pregnant women and invalids. Of such stuff, apparently, is the new Greece to be built. Ruling by dictatorial decree, the junta of army officers, who three weeks ago seized control in a swift coup, pressed ahead with their plan to reshape and purify Greek life and politics...
...purification process has been mainly one of arrests and repressions. In one indiscriminate slash, the junta outlawed no less than 279 Greek trade unions and social and political clubs, of which only a handful had actual far-left connections. It disbanded the youth organizations of all Greek political parties. The new government also banned 52 regional leagues of municipal officials throughout Greece and warned those that were left to stay out of politics. It dismissed as unreliable twelve mayors in cities and towns across the country. In fact, mayors as such may be going out of business anyway: the junta...
...committee aimed its strongest criticism at the whole group of middle level courses, which it says "fluctuates wildly" in difficulty from the "ridiculously low" level of most of the courses to Greek and Latin 112, which "resemble no other course so much in their intent and result as Chemistry...
...committee wants to see a basic and systematic sequence of courses established to eliminate the "guessing game" students must now play to figure out what courses will be offered. But chances of establishing such a sequence are slight, for Wendell V. Clausen, professor of Greek and Latin and chairman of the department, said yesterday that the department can't influence professors to teach any particular course or to set an arbitrary level of difficulty. "We don't want a rigid system," he said...
Another of the committee's proposals is aimed at lessening the gap between students who major in Classics and those who major in either Latin or Greek. At present Classics majors have to take general examinations in both Latin and Greek while the single-language majors lave to take generals in only one. The HPC wants to make translation passages in both languages mandatory...