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...courses were offered (and required) for the two heavily over-subscribed, week-long sessions. William Alfred, professor of English, gave an abbreviated version of Humanities 7, "The Modern Theatre," and Ralph Mitchell, McKay Professor of Applied Biology, lectured on "Man and His Environment...
Coping with Change. Thriving on making choices, 75% of the students have done some form of independent study. When one pod offered week-long "mini-courses," a 13-year-old boy who had been in trouble with the police chose film making. He then directed 15 other children in a zany sequence of trick photographic effects. Elated at his success, he has stopped playing hooky and begun doing serious work. For a paper on Russian political attitudes, another boy has just finished reading piles of newspapers, Doctor Zhivago, and the Communist Manifesto. Last month a group of girls got credit...
...First Baptist Church in Houston, youth-minded Pastor Bisagno, 37, brought in Evangelist Hoag to recruit the young in a week-long revival. Hoag traveled from school to school with his plea, and 11,000 young people stepped forward at Bisagno's church to declare themselves for Jesus. Now the first few pews at First Baptist are reserved for the youngsters. While the rest of the congregation mumble their amens, the kids punctuate Bisagno's sermons with yells of "Outta sight...
VVAW planned today's protests to publicize Operation Dewey Canyon III,, the week-long antiwar campaign by Vietnam veterans which VVAW is sponsoring in Washington, April...
...Harvard rugby team left for a week-long tour in England last night. Their first match will be on Thursday against the University of Aberdeen in Richmond Stadium outside London. "It's like an English football team coming over here to play Notre Dame at South Bend." Greg Sandomirsky, co-captain and president of the Rugby Club, explained...