Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most American schools, an 90 to 95 per cent of the reading texts for beginning readers, use the "meaning method"--emphasizing the content of written words in an effort to associate reading with the child's daily life...
...pocket ghettos--rows of low level shabby brick buildings squashed together inside a wall of light industry. But even in these wards Smith was defeated by a Catholic candidate whose campaign tactics were to approach the local priest with a certain sum of money. New Orleans is ninety per cent Catholic. "I tried to speak to the priests but they wouldn't see me. They had obviously been told not to have anything to do with me," he sighed. "That's the kind of thing we're up against...
Students who have not yet handed in their freshman seminar questionnaires can do so until noon next Tuesday. Extension of the deadline is possible because programming the data from questionnaires already received will take a full week. About 65 per cent of the 1400 questionnaires have been returned...
...tedious exercise of generals unfortunately adds up to 30 per cent of a student's Honors grade, and this year the department is compounding its sins by reinstitutnig junior generals, which were wisely eliminated in 1961. Probably many students don't take the tests too seriously. But if junior generals do loom large to concentrators, the sharp focus of junior tutorial would be undermined, and the student's freedom to dabble with General Education would be restricted as he is forced to get ready to meet the requirement...
...harder on everyone in the House--Master, tutors, and students--when there are too many men in the rooms," Stewart said. In the letter, he requested that Dean Ford take action to reduce Lowell's overcrowded rooms by at least 18 per cent to a condition more in line with other Houses...