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...less than competent in either English or Spanish, or in, the specific subjects they teach. In a 1976 test of 136 teachers and aides in bilingual programs in New Mexico, only 13 could read and write Spanish at third-grade level. Says former Boston School Superintendent Robert Wood: "Many bilingual teachers do not have a command of English, and after three years of instruction under them, children also emerge without a command of English." Another complicating factor is the inability of researchers to determine whether the problems of Hispanic students stem more from language difficulty or from their economic class...
...name from the fact that it was swampland reclaimed for farming beginning in the 17th century. This rich earth is gradually falling into the hands of interlocking conglomerates, and the play implies that the Japanese may eventually own it. Against this backdrop Churchill fashions a kind of Under Milk Wood as it might have been seen through the bleak, baleful eyes of Thomas Hardy...
...activities. "That's a great building that just needs some work," says Reardon. "I was hoping someone would come forward and want their name put on it, but that hasn't happened." Reardon cites problems with the filtering system for the 50-year-old building's pool and rotting wood on the windows as areas needing attention. The department also plans to install an insulating blanket over the swimming pool to reduce the building's excessive humidity. "It's so humid that now if you paint anything in there it peals off," Reardon says. Anderson says the department would like...
Robert Winthrop '26, currently honorary chairman of the New York brokerage and investment banking firm of Wood, Struthers and Winthrop, is the only honorary degree recipient this year who graduated from the College...
Clark's principal mentors were Walter Pater and Bernard Berenson. To the latter he maintained a long though not always harmonious apprenticeship. In an autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, he spoke of Berenson "perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work...