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Perhaps the most outspoken opponent of minimal competency is Educator Arthur Wise, whose influential 1968 treatise, Rich Schools, Poor Schools, argued that children in both affluent and underprivileged school districts had the right to an equal education. Wise is currently working on another book, tentatively titled Hyper-Rationalization, which condemns competency testing for "narrowing the goals of education and prompting teachers to teach the test." Wise fears that minimal competency entails the extension to education of such business-school concepts as cost effectiveness and accountability. Says he of minimal competency advocates: "It is as if they want to set goals...
Meanwhile, B.C. was hitting an obnoxious 64.5 per cent from the floor, thanks mainly to the hyper-active play of guard Ernie Cobb (ten points in first half) and center Bob Bennifield (12 points), Chestnut Hill's answer to young Connie Hawkins, who blocked four Harvard shots during the course of the game...
...stands for (a) hard, horny, hairy and hip, (b) head, heart, hearth and hope, (c) head, heart, hands and health, (d) helpless, hyper, hideous and hectic, (e) a four-cylinder Massey-Harris tractor...
...play written by a student--there since the late 60s--even though the bi-annual Phyllis Anderson prize for the best original undergraduate drama is a choice of either $500 towards publication or the play being performed on the Mainstage--but no one can explain it. Because of the hyper-secrecy of past Harvard Dramatic Club (HDC) boards, the present board and members have no idea whether applications for original works to be produced on the mainstage have been consistently rejected over the past five years, or if simply no one has applied...
...many depart in their cropping or subject matter from traditional journalistic photography. His images of "The World" are particularly radical. In order to achieve forceful pictures of inanimate subjects. Harbutt has had to use his camera violently. He has adopted strange vantage points; he has had to look for hyper graphic qualities in his subject matter; he has isolated objects in a very unnatural way. The result is a set of pictures which are flat, without any visual Iyricism. Harbutt has photographed everyday buildings people and street scenes, but his pictures deny any three-dimensionality in their subject. There...