Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roswell Gilpatric), Bobby last month set up weekly night-school seminars presided over by Presidential Aide (and ex-Harvard historian) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and State Department Counselor (and ex-M.I.T. economist) Walt Whitman Rostow. Dubbed "Hickory Hill University" after Bobby's McLean, Va., estate, the seminars involve homework of one book a week, and Rostow, exercising a professor's traditional prerogative, promptly assigned his own Emergence of Nations. Equally promptly. Bobby's wife Ethel exercised a student's traditional right to complain. "Terrible books to read," she sighed. "Very heavy...
...that a Midtown education will leave him rudderless in the hard and heavy waters of the world. Said Tom Perley, 10: "I want to be a doctor, and so next year I'm going to public school for the sixth grade so I can get used to doing homework." But the teachers of Midtown's children like the school fine. Exulted Teacher John Moran: "You know what I did yesterday? Peeled apples!" Walter Merlino advertises his own case as a cheering example. "They might not want to be organization men." he said, finding comfort for his students. "They...
...neither father nor stepfather. Almost all their homes lack books and newspapers. Young girls say that their "biggest problem" is to get home without being molested by men. Teachers struggle "tenaciously and bravely" against the adversities of home and street, but bow before the realities. They assign no homework because it is an impossibility in filthy, noisy tenements. They teach no foreign languages in junior high school because half of their pupils hardly know English-they read at sixth-grade level or below. Their immediate task is to prod sleeping children who have been kept awake all night by battling...
...American kids, the return to school means more than seasonal submission to classroom and homework. It means piano lessons, too-usually lonely sessions with a private teacher once a week. But for a fast-growing number of youngsters from 6 to 18, the once dreaded struggle with sharps and flats is now as lively as a trip with the gang to the soda fountain. Well, almost. The burgeoning category of "group" activities-from groupthink to group therapy-now includes the newest wrinkle in piano teaching: group plink. Items...
Perhaps the happiest of Stanford's new captives is Yale's Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights wrestling with juvenile homework. The nights were worse than the days. When Daughter Sally bogged down in percentages, Papa Begle blew up. Sally's math book explained percentages three ways without touching on the common principle. "It was dull, terrible, uninteresting," growls Begle. "It was so revolting that I had to do something...