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...rabbi, peacekeeper, police officer, playground monitor and lunchroom patrol," says David Imig, executive director of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. "Over and above that, he's supposed to teach Johnny and Mary how to read." Adds Edith Shain, a veteran kindergarten teacher at the Hancock Park School in Los Angeles: "The teacher doesn't know who she has to please. She's not as autonomous as she once...
Besides gaining a new dean, the Design School is also acquiring a new chairman of the Architecture Department, the post the McCue is vacating. Henry N. Cobb '46, a founding partner in the New York firm of I.M. Pei & Partners and chief architect of Boston's John Hancock Tower, will assume the post in July with the intention of establishing new courses in the GSD in revitalizing buildings. "Older buildings embody certain cultural values; they are a statement about our past that should enrich our lives," Cobb says, adding, "We don't have to destroy our past to prepare...
Soon the pink glow dissipated and lights dotted the Hancock tower and the Prudential building. The skyline of downtown Boston became inconsequential as the rigs crossed the finish near the B.U. boathouse...
Therefore, Fowler concludes, Hancock was neither so wealthy, so radical, nor so distinguished as many around him. "He lacked the eloquence of Jefferson, the intellect of John Adams, and the character of Washington," Fowler admits...
Although he prefers to emphasize historical accuracy over personal analysis, Fowler produces a well-researched biography that is highly readable. Deeply caught up in Hancock's political life, he remains curiously non-political himself, declining to draw any parallels to modern trends or current poltics. But despite Fowler's reluctance to relate past to present, he leaves the impression that the Baron would have a thing or two to say today...