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Gone are the days, however, when Frenchman could look at his watch and know that in every school in the country, children would be studying a particular chapter of a particular book. Despite the instructions issued by the Ministry of Education, teaching varies widely from classroom to classroom throughout the country. Typical is the diversity within the Ecole Annexe de l'Ecole Normale des Instituteurs de Paris, a public primary school: children in one second-level class are made to sit up straight and arduously copy lessons from the blackboard; in another, they are allowed to mill around...
...zippers. "You have to have an idea of who you're trying to be If you want to be a peasant, don't buy velvet. You have to be authentic. People will point it out if you're not," says Dana Gass '85, who revitalized Harvard's SCA chapter last year...
...year-old specialist on the Japanese economy does not have long to wait now until this part of his life is a former chapter. He announced his plans last month to quit his post next summer in order to be able to return to the life of scholarship he left ten years ago. Now Rosovsky is reflective as he looks back over his decade in office. "It's a continual struggle day to day to try and make the best appointment to make the right financial decision, to make this change in education. Maybe its my own style and maybe...
Graham, currently the only Black and only woman on the council, explains that about 4000 of the city's 10,418 Blacks are eligible to vote and registration drives are planned for later in the year by the Cambridge NAACP chapter. "I really do believe that Chicago and Philadelphia have had an impact on Boston and Cambridge," she says...
...adventure in the big city," as Elliott puts it, has ended happily enough but not without a dark chapter. On top of Harvard's standard academic and social pressure, the visitor from the Midwest had to struggle with a mysterious illness that caused debilitating headaches and depression junior and senior years. His ultimately successful battle against the ailment, and in particular his self-diagnosis, only confirm the power of Bremen-style tenacity: "You just figure that there's got to be some way to beat that problem...