Word: warrens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Teaching is a hell of a hard job," Warren said. "It's frustrating and lonely and the teachers you'll have to work with are some of the most reactionary people in the country...
Most of those who attended the work-shop were interested in teaching deferments. But Nicholas Warren, a teacher in Winchester, urged them not to go into teaching "unless you're really interested in kids and education and doing something to improve it--some-thing far beyond getting yourself out of the draft...
Lloyd L. Weinreb, once a staff attorney to the Warren Commission, has been named Professor of Law. Weinreb was a law clerk for Justice Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court before coming to Harvard in 1965 to teach criminal law and criminal process...
Others, notably Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, have more serious quarrels with the Report. Handlin feels that the report over-emphasizes the peculiar historical position of the Negro and is too pessimistic about the Negro's potential ability to improve his own lot. Such a distorted perspective, he feels, is in effect racist and can have a debilitating effect on Negroes...
Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who has also criticized the report because it lacked "historical perspective," admitted that one can not expect history to be written in the eight months it took the Commission to produce the report...