Word: schrag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deficiencies of the Boston schools have been recounted before-most notably in Peter Schrag's sober, well-researched Village School Downtown, which was published last April. Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Theodore Sizer contends that Ko zol's recital of the ills of the Boston schools could be duplicated in many other big U.S. school systems. By overstating and underdocumenting his blustery crusade, Kozol is pushing Boston's regressive school officials into an even more defensive stance rather than inspiring them to correct much that is undeniably wrong. Indeed, School Superintendent William Ohrenberger dismisses the entire...
Often, today's gowned Polonius ends up speaking only to himself and to his own generation, confessing his own failures or omissions or hopes, and interpreting the world in his own image. Peter Schrag, an official of Amherst College, has catalogued some of the inevitable themes, including the Simple Uplift Speech, which stresses the need for renewed moral vigor, basic virtue and profound verities, along with the Inverted Uplift Speech, which stresses the lack of moral vigor, basic virtue and profound verities. Then there is the Aching Anywhere Appeal ("Anywhere needs your help; the Anywhereians are starving; their country...
...short story competition, James A. Culpepper '64 won first with "The Past," with second place shared by Charles A. Hart '63 for "I Love You Valina," and Phillip G. Schrag '64 for "Give...
...would be free to cross department lines if necessary. Sophomores with interests in either humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences, who feel the pinch of course restrictions would thus have some practical means of supplementing their lecture and classroom work with a supervised plan of independent study. Phillip G. Schrag...