Word: tougaloo
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...Freedom and other student right wing cadres. But the former group of compassionate students may be showing how the universities can tie themselves, as some are beginning to do, to local school systems or distant beleaguered colleges, such as the relation that Brown University has set up with Tougaloo or the University of Wisconsin with three other Negro colleges in the South. Here the way has been led by the natural scientists and mathematicians who have thought teaching sufficiently important (along with the discovery of how children learn through discovery) to invade the previously snubbed territory of the secondary schools...
...better or worse the gadfly breeze of Cambridge intellectual life is riffling through blissful, moss-draped trees of Mississippi's Tougaloo College, thanks to a group of Harvard faculty members and graduate students...
This northern contingent is helping to teach courses in Tougaloo's summer session. In addition to the college's regular summer offerings, they offer two entirely new programs, one for upperclassmen, and one for entering freshman attending campus orientation sessions...
...college has a faculty of 34 (half white, half Negro) and a student body of half a dozen whites and 500 Negroes. "We get some students with good potential, but they are undereducated-if they are educated at all," said Adam Beittel, the white president of Tougaloo...
Brown graduate students and professors will go to Tougaloo on one-year assignments to beef up its overloaded staff (only the English department has more than three teachers) and improve instruction in several departments taught by men without doctorates. Tougaloo, in turn, plans to send promising graduates to Providence for a fifth year of study, enabling them to go on to get advanced degrees. Jointly, Tougaloo and Brown will expand the college's curriculum, add a tutorial system...