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Periodic writing assignments, supplemented by intelligent and detailed criticism of each piece, serve to maintain student engagement in the material of the course while it is going on. Frequent short papers give the student an opportunity to hit his stride, and early grades are often discounted when his record shows improvement. The stress here is on improvement, on education, not on testing, as with the single term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge...
...four years in Cambridge, the Program for Harvard College was the most important physical factor. The Program reached its stride in late March, 1958, when a nationally-broadcast show, "The Case for the College," emphasized Harvard's need for unlimited wealth, conveniently limited to $82.5 million. As money flowed in, old buildings disappeared: the Mather squash courts, Cambridge tenements behind Dunster, the Radcliffe Health Center, and, most lamentably, Cronin's, fell to the wreckers. The University expanded upward, with seven-story Quincy (irreverently dubbed the "aircraft carrier by the Charles"), 12-story Leverett, the ten-story Health Center...
...placid citizens of Geneva take international conferences in stride, and scarcely looked up as the black limousines containing Russian, American and Chinese delegates swept by on their way to the Palais des Nations. But it was more dangerous to have the Algerian rebels in their midst...
Ever since 1948, skivvy-clad sprinters have strained to get a stride in front of Mel Patton's sizzling 9.3 sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. Although ten men have matched his time,* no one yet has raced past Patton into the record book. But this year the old champ has a new, more dangerous challenger: San Jose State's cocky Dennis Johnson, a whippet-fast Jamaican who is undefeated in eleven straight races, and this month became the first runner in history to tie Patton's world record four times in a single season...
...Germany's gabby Olympic Champion Armin Hary. They decided that Hary won his races at the start. "I knew my own start was terrible," says Johnson. He tried moving his starting blocks back farther than normal, rising more leisurely into the "set"' position, taking a quicker first stride to get the jump on the rest of the field. Purpose of the "slow rising" technique, says Winter, is to keep Johnson completely relaxed until the moment the starter's gun fires. "Our research shows that reaction time is improved by relaxation...