Word: webster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every sense, a revival meeting. Gathered in quaint old Webster Hall, a onetime Greenwich Village ball room, were 1,000 delegates and ob servers attending the first open con gress held by the U.S. Communist Party in seven years. The Reds' aim during the five-day conference was to rebuild their fading cause by publicly exploiting the country's antiwar, civil rights and allied New Left movements...
...droned one timeless banner stamped with a jaded peace dove. Though "fraternal guests" invited from 85 countries were unable to get U.S. visas, non-Communist newsmen were admitted for the first time-but only briefly and on condition that no pictures be taken of faces. Unfortunately, the gathering in Webster Hall looked more like a tintype from an early Dreiser novel than a revolutionary threat for the '60s. Most of the delegates were middle-aged to elderly whites, though there was a smattering of Negroes and a small youth contingent...
Sister Jacqueline Grennan, L.H.D., president of Webster College. She asks for an educational environment of free inquiry where no subject is protected by what she calls "intellectual closure...
...planning of their own education's. Then the researchers will begin to discuss the Boston community. The students will be encouraged to invite speakers and finally, if they want, to go out into the community itself--to picket or attend a school board meeting, or even, Webster says, to rake leaves...
...aimed primarily at a special group of youngsters--those who have lost interest in their work. These include both the potential dropouts and those who have continued to get good grades automatically, but without any personal commitment to their education. Out of a student body of 930 at Weeks, Webster has estimated there are 160 such students. They can be won back, he believes, only by a radical new program...