Word: newton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stanley Cup and $2,000 per man. - > Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche: the 26-mile, 385-yd. Boston Marathon, thus becoming the 17th foreigner to win the Patriot's Day race in the last 18 years. A bookkeeper in a cotton mill, Vandendriessche, 30, loped leisurely through the Newton hills, had no thought of winning until two miles from the finish when he found Ethiopia's heavily favored Abebe Bikila staggering rubber-legged just ahead. Vandendriessche dashed past Bikila, crossed the finish line 500 yds. ahead of Connecticut's Johnny Kelley, the 1957 winner. > No Robbery...
Raised in West Newton, Mass., Miss Park is her own prototype. On the one hand, she is a tireless volunteer worker for causes from prison reform to mental health, belongs to more organizations than a whole clubful of women. On the other hand, she is a trained scholar with an A.B. (summa) from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. (magna) in German studies from the University of Cologne. She is also the daughter of a college president (Wheaton) and the sister of another (Simmons). The first U.S. woman ever to become a college president twice, she takes over Barnard after 15 years...
Eventually, though, the Harvard Undergraduate Teachers program has been accepted in the schools of Cambridge, Newton, Arlington, and Brookline. Currently 35 undergraduates are serving as part-time teachers in these communities...
...Newton High School, Gerard Prunier '66, a native Parisian, is teaching a French class at approximately the level of French 20. Taught entirely in French, its reading list is impressive and demands much of he 20 students in the course. Among the titles are Cocteau's La Machine Infernale, Giraudoux's La Guerre de Troie N'aura Pas Lieu and Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard...
Schools with HUT programs have been able to enrich their program by providing more courses. Because these courses--for example, a game-theory course in a Newton junior high school--are frequently esoteric, they are best taught by college students with information about new fields fresh in their minds...