Word: homework
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the middle of the wire-strewn mainstage you can spot about a dozen of them, hanging lights or spattering paint on flats, or plunging up to the elbows in papier-mache. Some are here because "I couldn't stand to look at my math homework anymore," some to get "comps"--complimentary tickets available to anyone who helps "put in" a Loeb production. Some settle down to fingerpaint the platforms and Grecian arches for two hours because they will deliver Shakespearean soliloquies from them in a few days, or because, like Peter Miller, they are the set designer...
Gisela Makemson, a teaching fellow in Germanic Languages, said once section leaders recognized the students having trouble, the instructors should make extra efforts. They must check homework more carefully, provide extra office hours, inquire about study habits and find where each student is having the most difficulties, Makemson added...
...relaxed as he began preparations for the session. During a rehearsal at which aides threw tough questions at him, Reagan was asked to explain his farm policy. "I don't know," he answered with a chuckle. "It changes from day to day." Turning serious, Reagan dug into his homework. When one assistant produced a 318-page stack of regulations, covering 57 categorical grant programs, that the Administration has reduced to six pages applying to nine block grants, Reagan grinned broadly. "Let me see those," he said, his actor's eyes detecting a fine prop. He effectively displayed...
Fall in Cambridge means Ivy League football. First of all, don't sneer. You may have heard (if you care at all about these matters) that Ivy League football is the preoccupation of 135-pound weaklings who would like nothing better than to get back to their physics homework. But while it ain't the Big 10, football among the Ivies can be every bit as exciting and almost as well-played. The rivalries are ancient (they don't call it The Game for nothing), the scores close, and the level of play generally impressive...
After several days of intensive instruction (including homework), the campers choose their own computer project. Last week, for example, Peter Elliman, 12, was trying to design a program to analyze taxes for his mother, a Houston real estate agent. Halley Hupp, 13, of Newport Beach, Calif, said, "I want to make a C.S.I. [Computer System Instruction] program for teaching kids like us how to use some graphics and key words." Counselors give the youthful programmers high marks. Says Instructor Mitch Williams, 22, a computer-science graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara: "I'm glad the kids...