Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaffer could not have done without Prescott's Conquest of Peru (an astounding achievements-researched and written Jasmite the almost total blindness Prescott incurred from a food throwing fracas among Harvard students-and still, after more than a century, the definitive work on the subject). And Shaffer did his homework well. He follows the account in Book III of Prescott rather more closely than Shakespeare kept to his historical sources...
Time off for Homework. Moyers, at 28, was one of the youngest officials ever presented to the Senate for confirmation. "If this trend continues," growled the Meridian (Miss.) Star, "appointees to high Administration posts will have to have time off to do their school homework." Louisiana Democrat Russell Long just could not believe that Moyers was not somehow related to Lyndon Johnson. "Any blood relationship?" he asked. "No, sir," replied Moyers. "Not through marriage or otherwise?" Long persisted. "Only political," said Moyers. Some Senators considered his proposed $19,500 salary outrageous; few were aware that he had in his pocket...
...hundred years ago, one learned how to heat the sick by apprenticing oneself to a physician and watching how he did things. The best medical schools, Harvard included, simply corporated this system into a loose academic homework, supplementing it with some formal instruction. Apparently, this instruction was at very thorough; it ran four months of the year, and the final examinations (oral) were would to have been scandalously easy. Faculty members collected their salaries directly from students, who had to buy tickets for each course they took...
Though many private economists and corporate planners will have to redo their homework as a result of the new figures, and though much of the Administration's tax and economic program has been based on the discredited statistics, the revision does not change any of the economy's basic trends. The revised G.N.P. showed that the peak of the 1958-60 expansion and the bottom of the 1960 recession occurred a quarter earlier than believed, lessons that are valuable mostly for Government economic planners. Says Arthur Okun, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers: "The new figures...
...tragic view of life," says English Teacher Bruce MacDonald at Yale. "They know life is tough." Typically, the schools get the students up at 5:30 a.m., work them until noon, cart them off on tours of civic and his torical sites in the afternoon, assign three hours of homework, and provide time for the kids to have long talk sessions with advisers. Many of those who show promise will be given preferential admission if they apply to the same college after high school graduation. Integrated Seagulls. The main challenge to teachers is to get the youngsters to care about...