Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That's a point." I said. "I get paid all of $1350 a year teaching one class three times per week--though I do have to grade all their homework and hold office hours. I have a friend at M.I.T. who is paid $2500 plus tuition just for grading papers several times a semester, but everybody knows that M.I.T. is part of the military-industrial complex...
...least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which she lost a beauty contest. And her party dance, an uninhibited display of body English atop a piano, should provide a semester or two of isometric homework for the eager starlets who used to emulate Marilyn Monroe...
After six months work, the committee submitted the report to Johnson in December. About 15 or 16 full days of private hearings were held. Price said that the rest of the work was done "as homework by individual committee members...
...muster. One professor finds the students "a shade above those I've had on the main campus." The dropout rate at Minuteman U. is 19% a year, compared with a 40% attrition rate among all Ohio State graduate students, even though the men must juggle the time for homework and classes with family demands and additional Air Force requirements such as technical training, military tests, and logging enough flying time to maintain their pilot status. The strain is heavy. "I really felt good when Dr. Hastings told me there was no such thing as a happy graduate student, that...
...Paddle. The atmosphere at St. Aug's is warm but strict. Misbehaving students are whacked with an oak paddle; homework averages three hours a day. Entrance is by competitive exam, but the school's principal, the Rev. Robert H. Grant is committed to the idea of a comprehensive high school for youths of different intellectual capacities, and the IQs range from 75 to 130. Every pupil writes a weekly 300-word composition to counter the prevalent weakness in verbal skills. Math and science come easier because in those subjects "we are dealing with a kid's natural...