Word: teaches
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Drafted into the Army during World War II, Abernathy used his G.I. bill to attend Alabama State College, graduating in 1950 with honors in sociology. He stayed on to teach history and counsel students, and took up preaching for $40 a Sunday at a tiny church in Demopolis. His gutbucket style gained him quick recognition, and in 1951 he was named pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he also joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call...
...chance to have the President as a professor," says Senior Annette Bingham, a government major. "His experience in government would be invaluable to almost any student," allows Junior Larry Upshaw, who opposes Johnson on Viet Nam. The sentiment, however, is not universal. "If Lyndon Johnson came here to teach government," snirted a coed studying political science, I'd change my major to journalism...
...Socialist German Students' League barricaded university entrances, surrounded buildings with a tough, red-helmeted picket line and battled anyone who tried to enter classrooms. At Bonn University, 1,000 students boycotted lectures. At more than a dozen other West German universities and colleges, thousands more staged teach-ins and protest marches...
...moth escapes from its cocoon. The Elementary Science Study program has published an account of the way he found "How a Moth Escapes from its Cocoon." It will be used in elementary schools in September. In the pamphlet's preface, Kafatos states that science courses should not teach only the well-ordered results of research but also the daily progress of research, but also the daily progress of research, including the disappointments as well as the illuminations. He claims this would encourages frustrated beginners and would present a realistic picture of scientific work...
There is no particular malice in the Committee's exclusion of the issue of teaching undergraduates; it did not consider the opposite possibility either--converting Harvard to the style of Columbia or Chicago where most of the top professors do not teach undergraduates. The report simply accepted as a given the present balance of undergraduate and graduate instruction...