Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need of developing its own administrators, technicians and civil servants (the government's daily business is still conducted by some 11,000 Frenchmen). A crash educational program has been devised: private houses converted into schools, teachers drafted, and any Moroccan with a good education is asked to teach 20 others what he has learned. The Ministry of Education has blueprinted a plan to put every Moroccan child into school within five years, at a cost of $160 million. When does the program start? "When we get the money," shrugs an education official. The money can come only from France...
Anticipating a negative argument that Oppenheimer's perjury "in order to protect a friend" disqualified him for the appointment, Kimball said that if the telling of one or two lies was set as a standard, "very few of the present faculty would be qualified to teach at Harvard...
Actor Salyer is exactly right in his role -the Virgil of this sad little hell. Though a ruin, he is a noble ruin, and by sheer force of presence he can command the onlooker to follow into the depths, and to look at things that may teach him a little-known truth about the brotherhood of man. It is not an ideal; it is a brutal fact...
Does the Oppenheimer appointment mean that Harvard is suffering from a bad case of schizophrenia? Wouldn't she expel a student found guilty of the very misconduct confessed by Oppenheimer, whom she has honored by asking him to teach ethics to her students? Edmond J. Donlan House of Representatives State House, Boston...
Kotos & Bugles. A graduate of George Washington University and a U.S. Army veteran of the New Guinea campaign, Fotouhi set out to convince the Japanese that he had come not only to teach them about the U.S. but to learn as much as he could about Japan. His daughter went to a Japanese school, learned the language, even became adept at sword fighting and playing the koto (harp). In addition to studying the tea ceremony, her mother also took up the koto, and father Fazl learned the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Last month little Farida gave a recital over the radio...