Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hirsch maintains that reading skills are limited to topics the reader has encountered, so specific information must be drilled into students' heads. He uses the example of standardized reading comprehension tests: "If a young boy knows a lot about snakes but very little about lakes, he will make a good score on a passage about snakes, but a less good score on a passage about lakes....If you know about lakes and snakes, and rakes and cakes, you will have [a high] reading ability...
Sometimes athletes must even take midterms on the road--a hotel room serves as a classroom and coaches as procters...
...essential problem for athletes is time. Some Harvard athletes spend as many as 50 hours a week on their sports during the season. A football player, for instance, must not only go to practices and games but also attend weight-training sessions and view films of opposing teams...
...their part, coaches have a dual role. They must win games while at the same time making sure their athletes stay on top of their academic work. And that is not always an easy task. "I'm sure there are guys coaching who say it should be easier to coach at Harvard than at other places," men's basketball coach Peter Roby says...
...Americans liked him. We must have. Nothing proves this so much as the election of George Bush. Nineteen eighty-eight was America's last chance to cast a ballot for Reagan. George Bush didn't win the election so much for the Gipper as the Gipper...