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...think that colorful elementary school classrooms and matronly teachers are agents for fear inhibiting every child's growth. But John Holt, with examples from his own experience (he is a teacher who has observed children for years) shows schools do more to prevent than foster learning. Holt's plea is simple: schools must not accommodate the needs of teachers and administrators but the needs of children as they grow into the world...
...that their behavior was an act of conscience in the face of the refusal of the Council to enact a civil rights ordinance. Their demonstration, they contended, was a statement of moral feeling protected by the First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances. The Court rejected their plea. Recognizing that what constitutes a disturbance is contingent upon circumstances, the Court held that interruption of the orderly process of city council proceedings violated the customs and usages of such a meeting. No matter how moral the motivation of the defendants, the action, premeditated by the clergymen and expressly ordered...
...bitterness. He refuses to hate the Army or the country, or even the man trying to take away his life and freedom. At midtrial, Calley said of the Army prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel: "He's just doing his job." When Daniel ended the trial with a devastating, impassioned plea for conviction, Calley remarked afterward and with obvious sincerity: "I think he did a great...
DISARMAMENT. Brezhnev dusted off several old Soviet propaganda ploys. There was some hope in the West, however, that his plea for a reduction of forces in Central Europe might lead to talks between NATO and the Warsaw Pact on mutual balanced force withdrawals. He also suggested a conference of the five nuclear powers (Britain, China, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R.) to discuss the total abolition of atomic weaponry-although both France and China sent regrets last time such a meeting was proposed...
Through your good offices I would like to make a plea to all bike riders to WALK THEIR WHEELS in the Old Yard as well as in the Theatre Area. Reason is, bicycles can he dangerous. I speak from experience, having just missed being knocked down two days in a row last fall. On one of these occasions. I was in conversation with Prof. Hammond and John Marquand in front of Widener when a rider shot through us at high speed. Imagine if all three, or any one of us had been...