Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with the photographs of the cardinals in their flowing red outfits goes Associate Editor John T. Elson's fascinating account of the history of the cardinals. The story is built around last week's happenings at the consistory, but we had already done our homework first-and we believe that homework plus headwork plus headlines make the best combination...
...businessmen"). The school offers all the conventional subjects, from art to science, French, history and math. But students attend only classes that interest them. To hold his audience, a teacher may have to lecture while sprawled on the floor. Though most children attend regularly, and some even beg for homework, others play hooky for weeks at a time. One boy failed to appear once in two years. "I think that he must have had strong outside interests," East muses...
...whole program was, in fact, abnormally well endowed with uninspired music. Beethoven's Thirty-two Variations in C Minor, Opus 11, provided Miss Menuhin's solo of the evening; apparently both he and she worked the piece out as a homework assignment. It is, of course, possible that Beethoven intended this as a display of technique, a pianist's tour de force, but in Miss Menuhin's wanderings, the force got lost in the tour. The melody, what there was of it, never managed to crawl out of the piano, since the pedal had a strangle hold...
...courses open out of town (San Diego is one try-out spot), get favorable reviews and move on to bigtime Westwood. U.C.L.A. never knows quite what to expect; adult students are no simple problem. One stiff engineering course, which meets six hours a week and requires 14 hours of homework, ran into lonely-wife trouble. Now the wives attend lectures on their husbands' professional problems, which somewhat soothes them. Hardest of all is predicting the pulling power of new courses. One lecture series on "Man and Art" was supposed to draw 36 people, wound up with...
...Vernier must procure the manuals and textbooks for all the courses these students are taking, to bone up on them and to include parts of them in his chronicle. Hence at least half of Degrees is taken up with quotations from textbooks, classroom recitation, synopses of lectures, transcripts of homework, including mathematical problems complete with errors and corrections...