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After two full centuries of increasing growth, secularism and financial independence, Harvard remained a small and inadequate school. Its faculty in 1868 numbered scarcely 20, its student body fewer than 500. Its dormitories had no central heat or running water. Its narrow curriculum of required courses involved largely the recitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Schoale and How It Grew | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

AIA's campaign attempts to convert what is by nature a process of debate into a lifeless recitation of sterile data. Teaching at its best is not unbiased; it is provocative. An effective teacher challenges the student to agree or disagree, and to think of reasons for doing so.

Author: By James A. Himes, | Title: The Academic Inquisitors | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

Baird & McGuire is just this side of the border with Randolph, a town that has shared water supplies with Holbrook. Esther Ross, a Randolph resident, says she got worried in 1981 when she found herself going to a lot of funerals. There is a certain Times Beach ring to her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Gromyko was like a seismograph inserted into the very heart of America's Government, absorbing all the tremors but sending absolutely nothing back. Gromyko talked, but what Reagan heard was right out of the briefing book, a recitation of prejudices, perceived insults and the history of the world acl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Taking Gromyko's Measure | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

THE ASPECT of King Lear which the Theater Works production presents most clearly is Lear's struggle to distinguish between wisdom and folly, reality and insanity. Although that achievement belongs primarily to McDonough's Lear, it owes almost as much to the agility of Kevin Keragga's Fool. The Fool...

Author: By Frances T. Ruml, | Title: A King's Madness | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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