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...campus peace organizations and several graduate schools, Waging Peace sponsored Wednesday's Nuclear Convocation at Harvard, one of 150 similar gatherings at colleges in 42 states. Organizers of the national program estimated yesterday that more than 100,000 people attended the conferences and compared the event to the initial teach-ins that sparked campus protest to American involvement in Vietnam...
...offers an international placement service and numerous programs including a federally-funded juvenile justice program through which law students teach primary and secondary school students about...
...Harvard simultaneously with World War II. "I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English," Lehrer says, "but Math had the fewest requirements so I went with it." After graduating magna cum laude in 1946, he continued studying mathematics in Harvard graduate school. "I knew I wanted to teach and Math was my field, so I studied Math," he says...
...just studied and was a section leader and nothing was strange about it at all. I was never really confronted with my difference from other grad students. It wasn't like I was Brooke Shields coming to entertain the troops." One Harvard professor, for whom Lehrer was a teaching fellow, remembers Lehrer this way. "He was Tom Lehrer, world celebrity, the most famous member of the Math department," John Tate, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, says, "but on the other hand, when he was here, that part of him wasn't at all obvious." Lehrer kept after the doctorate for five...
With its limited number of junior faculty positions, the concentration is highly dependent on graduate students to teach its tutorials--but it is no graduate students of its own. Thus, Social Studies must rely on other social science departments to supply graduate students, but as the faculty report stated, "Some departments have never been able or willing to furnish tutors in Social Studies...