Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Photographic Board takes pictures, and very good pictures they are, too. Some malicious person with an evil tongue has spread abroad the rumor that news photography dampens creativity of the camera and darkroom. Not so; this spirit must be exorcised. Conjuro te, Satanass for all kinds of photographers is...
A plan designed to send Harvard graduates to teach secondary school in Nigeria would be in the best interests of the new nation, Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, said last night. Keppel was a member of the Ashby Commission, an international group of experts which...
The aim of the Ashby Commission's proposal would be a self-sufficient Nigerian secondary school system by 1970. Nigeria would send its natives abroad to be trained for high school teaching at the rate of 600 a year for seven years. By 1966, American-and British-educated Nigerians would...
Keppel emphasized that Nigeria "must expand its secondary schools rapidly in the next ten years, in order to be able to produce a number of reasonably highly educated people."
But, in this period when expansion of secondary education is so important, Keppel said, "we do not have in Nigeria people qualified to teach in secondary schools." The Ashby Commission plan would provide "a number of British-American teachers to fill in while Nigerians are being trained."