Word: masters
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...anyone has any of these symptoms and wishes to share them with me, please cough into an envelope and send them to The Crimson, where our master lab technicians will isolate the offending germs and transfer them to me so that I can write a first-hand report on each new agent...
Over one-fourth of the audience walked out on the opening night of the Boston Ballet's Fall, 1974 season. The reason: a performance of "Winterbranch," a work by avantgarde master Merce Cunningham...
Parents make special accomodations for children too young to go to school. For Elaine Dunn, associate master of Quincy House, who worked as director of child development at Simmons College before the birth of her son Alexander, staying at home was a matter of choice. "I thought I'd keep working, and even applied for daycare. But as soon as he was born I decided to stay with him," she says. Although she may enroll him in a nursery school after his second birthday, Dunn has mixed feelings about doing so. "I'm fascinated by his growth. I want...
Students in other Houses also take an interest in the resident children and many children are accustomed to seeing students on a regular basis. Sixteen-month-old Alexander Dunn looks forward to greeting visitors to the Master's sherry hours; although he cannot yet remember or pronounce many names, the child recognizes faces and greets everyone with "Hi, boys! Hi, girls!" He refers to sherry hours as "potato chip time," because students like to feed him munchies on request...
...welter of tongues would have been unspeakable in an American public school. For more than a century, the great melting-pot theory decreed that foreign-speaking children be taught solely in English to speed their assimilation into the mainstream. The children of 50 million immigrants were forced to master English that way. Some 22 states even outlawed teaching in foreign languages...