Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...this red-brick superstructure shelters a group of student athletes who are caught in the middle of Harvard's inability to decide what to do with itself. Athletes--and their coaches--have been thrust into the current of a competitive upswing that has been nourished amid the traditional Harvard attitudes of "sports for everyone," "participation first, winning second," and "brooks before ballgames." The contradiction is an obvious one, though the University seems unable to come to terms with...
...Harvard is to fight "victory inflation," it will need someone, or a group of someones, to confront the issues. I hope they have cut deep--stinging members of the Ivy League community. I know I bristled when I first heard them--my impulse was to berate Giamatti, to endorse the "I love you, coach; I'd beat my mother for you, coach" attitude which can pervade athletics. That attitude just does not work; I suspect it's not very useful anywhere, but especially not in the Ivies or at Harvard...
...chrome and stainless-steel substitutes. In an attempt to retain some glamour, manufacturers have given the alloys exotic trade names like Ultrium and Siladium. Salesmen now proudly point out that the gold substitutes resist tarnish or dents and will not leave rings around the finger. Says R. Lyman Wood, group vice president of Lenox Inc., an industry leader: "You can drop it or step on it. You can even wear it playing football...
...shift from an all-out study of literature to a more rigorous blend of literature and composition can be a shock to the faculty. At the University of Texas' Austin campus, half the students in the 1960s were excused from fulfilling the freshman English requirement. Today that group has dipped to 28%. To staff the 256 sections of freshman English now required at the sprawling state campus. Liberal Arts Dean Robert King has ordered all English professors to teach one composition course annually. So far, none has carried out initial threats to quit from overwork...
...students learn writing and organization by building paragraphs from collections of dozens of related sentences ("The train arrives at the station": "The station is crowded"). One study of 300 freshmen at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, found that students trained by this method wrote significantly better than a control group. Sentence combining can be used at all age levels. A program called Success, developed at Duke, teaches second-and third-graders how to read and write using vocabulary from newspapers. Before writing their own paragraphs, they compose paragraphs together, with the teacher at the blackboard acting as secretary...