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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam to analysis of a symphony. The boys were able to discuss academic and personal problems with their teachers. When one flunked French, Challenge found him a tutor. However, the program suffered from infrequent meetings and a shot-gun approach to subject matter. The boys had a fairly heavy load of homework; many held part-time jobs; and several were on sports teams. Although Challenge would like to have classes for boys all the way through 12th grade, high school students, even more than the ninth graders, are likely not to have time to participate...
Bended Knee. That examination over, Buswell packed his 1720 Strad and dashed back to Cambridge, Mass., to study for exams at Harvard, where he is a sophomore carrying a full load of classes. Though his 50-city concert tour this season means that he will miss 40% of his classes, he bones up on lectures taped for him by an admiring Radcliffe coed. "I take my books on tour," he says, "but it's like a child sucking his thumb. They comfort me, make me feel virtuous. But I'm always disastrously behind." Nevertheless, he caught up well...
...Junior faculty are not "provided with such basic necessities as secretaries, telephones, paper, postage stamps." True, and this should be emphasized, but why is there no mention of the unusually heavy work load (i.e. number of hours actually spent in the classroom) at Harvard? Junior faculty at Harvard spend almost twice as much time teaching when compared with men in similar ranks at other institutions (see AAUP Bulletin, LII, 1963, statements of the committee on faculty workload...
There can be no doubt but that West German TV broadcasts are received in East Germany and that such broadcasts do carry a certain load of propaganda. But the West Germans are amateurs in the art of political propaganda, as anyone will ascertain who has ever had the pleasure of listening to the "Deutschlandsender" or even the "Freiheitssender 904". In any case, West Germany does not jam East German broadcasts or punish those whose TV antennas are turned to the wrong direction...
Before the meeting, John R. Maynard, teaching fellow in English and spokesman for the Federation, said that the teaching fellows were already marshalling arguments to support their request of $400 per year increase over the present top rate for a fifth-time teaching load...