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...freshman proctor and third-year Ed School student is working with the help of over 30 Harvard undergraduates to establish an experimental school that will encourage learning through "direct experience...
...Experience and integration are the great unmet needs in education today. It is to begin answering these needs that we are founding Tunbridge," Jan D. Rakoff, the Lionel proctor who is directing the starting of the school, said...
Under orthodox Jewish beliefs, students are not permitted to take exams on Saturday. Harvard Jews observing the prohibition may come to the regularly scheduled exam period and wait under the supervision of a proctor until sundown to begin the exam. The students are required to pay a proctor at the rate of $2.50 an hour during the waiting period and the examination...
Burchfield's perseverance paid off in some of the most unusual nature painting in American art. In memory of the artist, who died in 1967, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, N.Y., is currently displaying a 441-work retrospective. Organized by Assistant to the Director Joseph Trovato, the show ranges from schoolboy sketches to some of his last large watercolors, handsomely illuminating Burchfield's special gifts. Sweeping views and majestic scenery were not his forte. Rather, he marveled at nature's moods, the songs of crickets and cicadas, the sound of the wind in the telegraph...
...wilder urban system is Dorothy Proctor's plot to install a love-in on every park bench. Her life-sized fiberglass grandmas, boy-with-dogs, and hand-holding couples may be seated throughout Boston. Each sculpture would leave room for six live people on a bench. So, according to the artist, "You could put your head on a girl's lap or lean against Grandma, and a child could pat the dog without damage to either." A less cozy proposal specifices concrete benches-figures and bench would be cast as one piece...