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Public schools in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Kansas City, Berkeley, and New Haven will be closed all day today. Boston schools will remain open except King Middle School in Roxbury, which will close at noon...
...inconsistent with the aims of education, but are actually harmful to the individual." Magaziner wrote last spring. "They encourage a mechanical kind of learning . . . act as artificial goals and become ends in themselves, discouraging student's from developing their own values." Furthermore, he found, "they are not even accurate, except in predicting grade-getting ability." He concluded that grades served only to sort students for future careers as professional or graduate students...
Finally, the Report urged more interdisciplinary courses in general, more leeway in concentration requirements, the end of distribution requirements (except for MOT courses), and a greater opportunity for students to work out their own academic program through individual independent study. G.I.S.P. s. and participation as teaching assistants in MOT courses in their field...
...President Johnson ended graduate deferments, except for medical and divinity students. He was not in favor of ending undergraduate deferments at that time, even though a Presidential commission re-commended in 1967 that all student and job deferments be ended...
...heartening 7% during 1969, but officials figure that the bridge-tunnel will not start to break even for another decade. An average of 105,518 cars, trucks and buses a month have been using the span, mostly on weekends. On weekdays, the roadways of the superspan are often deserted-except for clusters of seagulls...