Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, however worthy the special committee as a study group, it is clear that it is a mistake to also assign the power to discipline students to this body...
...Udall, the most important right cause is Train's commitment to "the environmental impact of what we're doing." Train believes that the Federal Government must assign top priority to preserving open space and protecting wildlife-two of Interior's traditional functions. He insists that the Government also study the wise use of all of the nation's vulnerable natural resources, and specifically a campaign against such blights as pollution, overcrowding and planned uglification. Train, 48, an Eisenhower appointee to a tax court judgeship, first became interested in conservation as a big-game hunter...
...these "policy" courses, Wilson said, there could be two ways for departments to re-grant credit. "Departments could offer the courses with one of their own regular instructors," Wilson said, "or else they could assign some military instructors in whose credentials they had confidence--for instance, someone who had earned a Ph.D. from Harvard...
...been standard practice in both China and the Soviet Union to assign graduates to rural work, in part to help them overcome their traditional aversion to dirty hands. But the current mass deportation of intellectuals from urban centers has more far-reaching goals and implications. Chinese broadcasts emphasize that the mass upheaval is part of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's plan for a revolution in the country's educational policies; he is said to believe that the present setup tends to perpetuate urban, bourgeois values. It is also something of a "rectification" campaign, however, designed to punish...
Papers. This was old P. Bender Bartlett's specialty, and the Bartiett Boom remains standard. Although many variations are permitted, it was the master's own strategy to assign one two-page and one thirty-page paper each term. He criticized the two-pager in great detail, and marked it stiffly; thus students were driven to invest a good deal of time into the thirty-pager--only to get it back ungraded, with the comment, "I don't think one can measure an effort of this sort by a number or letter...