Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solutions, short of closing the schools down altogether. One method is to eliminate lower grades. Cincinnati's Archbishop Karl J. Alter pioneered large-scale grade elimination five years ago, when he cut out nearly all first-grade classes from archdiocesan schools. For smaller cities, where public schools have space and the laws allow it, "shared-time" programs may work. In at least 300 communities parochial-school children are allowed to attend public schools for classes in such secular subjects as language, mathematics and the physical sciences. St. Paul's High School, in Chicago, was even designed...
...gymnasts also had asked the committee to make available a practice room larger than the cramped exercise room at Hemenway Gym. Cutler said that the Committee decided that Hemenway is the only available space at Harvard. The Faculty also acknowledged a request from a group of graduate students that their exercise room be returned...
Stephens said he based his charges on President Pusey's statement in a letter to Dean Ford last month. Pusey's letter said that the Corporation, not the Faculty, has the right to allocate space in Harvard buildings...
...make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...
...same predicament. It is hard to take responsibility for one's own existence without privacy and without time. It is hard to use even the freedom one does have, for it is hard to realize it is there. The noise of the dorm fills up the spaces and presses in on the people living there, sounds, words, commands--the voice of the public consciousness. The constricted space of plural living is a sign of sorrow. Free, open space is needed for the fortuitous and the unforeseen to occur, for the emotionally neutral and the amplitude of life everyone...