Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month) instead of charging them tuition. It gets ?350,000 a year from the Egyptian government, is also heavily endowed by wealthy Moslem alumni. There are no entrance exams, though every Egyptian student is expected to know the Koran (the Moslem Bible and Al Azhar's main textbook) by heart-a feat they master...
Available at PBH this Tuesday, and every Monday thereafter, these mimeographed sheets will collate a variety of in town and in College events-plays, movies, concerts, recitals, art shows, sporting events, dances, lectures, colloquiums, and forums-into a list readily pasted in the back of any soporific textbook...
Wrote Thursfield: "American children should know those fascinating historical myths and legends that have become a part of American folklore. . . . Some of these myths stimulate affection for our country, or an appreciation of its leaders or institutions. Unfortunately, there has been a growing tendency for the history textbook and the history teacher to omit . . . legends in the classroom...
Like many another student of languages, Publisher Stanley Burnshaw was tired of keeping his place in the front of a textbook while he hunted up definitions in the back. Last week his Dryden Press published a Spanish text, Paisaje y Hombres de América, designed to do away with all the fussing...
...keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance - and pinches a textbook on sex. Thereafter, out of the mouth of babes comes a good deal for a certain kind of grownup to guffaw...