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What was afoot, it turned out, was a TIME cover, but there was much homework to be done. Writer Magnuson monitored more college classes in the East and Middle West, and early in the year the news bureaus were asked to scout the campuses in their areas and search out top teachers. In what is probably a journalistic exercise without precedent, scores of TIME reporters went back to school...
...from Teacher Barrett's mailbox, blackboard, wastebasket and students' schoolwork. Teachers chuckle in recognition at the memos Miss Barrett receives, such as one beginning: "Please disregard the following," and at the kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate," as in Emily Dickinson's "There...
...South Carolina lowland summer, they voluntarily attended classes six hours a day. They started classes themselves when the teachers were late. They stayed after classes were supposed to end, talking about Raisin in the Sun, set theory, Storm Thurmond, and Malcolm X. Most of them did more homework in those six weeks than they had in the previous year. None droped...
That much disposed of, the judge proceeded to his lecture on bureaucracy. A little homework by the Customs Department on the language and history of the statute that gives it its authority would have been a good idea, Frankel implied. Action, he pointed out dryly, is supposed to be taken "upon the seizure" of a book. "The word 'upon' is defined in the dictionary as meaning 'with little or no interval after.' While it is too late in the day to suppose that the dictionary gives decisive clues to the meaning of statutes," the history...
...computer-in-residence will start helping Cliffies with their homework by he middle of this month...