Word: mats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope's encyclical against contraception is continuing to meet remarkable resistance from Catholics on all levels of the church. A sharp reminder of that fact occurred when Pat rick Cardinal O'Boyle was the speaker at the Sunday noon Mass at St. Mat thew's Cathedral in Washington. Instead of delivering a sermon, he entered the pulpit to read a pastoral letter that, it had been announced in advance, would exhort the faithful to obey the encyclical. As O'Boyle began to speak, about 400 worshipers, roughly one-third of the congregation, rose and walked...
Most of the other changes, however, have come at the initiative of interested students and faculty rather than from the administration. MAT's have actively sought urban internships and the number of MAT's being trained in the core city schools jumped from four last year to twenty-nine this year. George B. Thomas, director of the Ed School's Center for Field Activities, is supervising a field-study course, which is placing 50 students in groups of six to eight in community agencies throughout Boston. An undetermined number of students are pursuing independent study in the field. According...
...this activity has had the active encouragement of Sizer, but it remains a grass-roots effort without central coordination. The result has been a communication problem; with everybody doing his own thing, courses duplicate one another and often fail to fill the crucial gaps in the curriculum. The MAT summer study found the school very strong in the social sciences, but very weak in such areas as the study of teaching methods. Almost all the new courses fall into the category of social science...
...change universities from the top," says Sizer. "The head is -- to mix a metaphor -- a sort of catalytic traffic cop, giving the nod to some things, stopping others. It's always sloppy and irregular movement on a lot of fronts." Also, for all their shouting last spring, MAT's have been less than hungry for opportunities to work in the field and intern in the ghettos (25 out of 150 interns is not overwhelming). C-2, the field work course, had room for 60 students but got only 50 applications...
...practical problem of manpower. It is now understood that nine of the 16 sections are led by persons reportedly ineligible for Corporation appointments. Besides several undergraduates, they include one non-student, one special student, two candidates for MAT's at the Ed School, and a graduate student from M.I.T...