Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because, as Edward Geary, coordinator of Languages puts it, "no one had ever taken the trouble before." But besides this obvious answer, there is one other somewhat nebulous reason for the college's emphasis on old systems. Harvard's approach to language teaching has always been on the "literary" level. That is to say, when a professor was teaching a class how to speak French, he was really teaching his students about France. The goal of any elementary language course here was to teach the student how to read the language, both so he could delve into the literature...
...Washington, foreign-policy planners feel compelled to level their sights somewhat below the ideals, and to assess the practical consequences of U.S. support for Greece over Cyprus. Turkey and Great Britain are more important allies than Greece; and we need all the strength we can get in the current "cold war." Too bad about the ideals, they might say, but really, we just can't do better than try to stay neutral--given the circumstances, you understand...
...When I decided to stay with art education, it was a considerable sacrifice on my part," Mvusi says. "I was placed alongside fellows at the ninth grade level as an example. You know, 'If he learns about this sort of thing, we can, too.' Some of the teachers didn't even have my qualifications...
When his year as a ninth grade "example" was over, Mvusi was asked to teach art at the high school level...
...stopped at the reference desk. Librarians occasionally find books in disarray on the X Cage floor, as if knocked loose by a stick or similar object. They hypothesize that some of the especially eager have reached through the narrow opening between the stack and the ceiling of a lower level, is reflected in the preponderance of articles about jobs and careers open to women, as well as in the underlying assumption in all these early publications that a Radcliffe magazine was interesting by the very fact of its existence. After 1914, however, there was an increasing need to find something...