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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...group of College students will help set up a revised American History program for juniors at Newton High School who do not plan to attend college. The group, composed of Honors candidates in History and Government, met last night to discuss plans with Wayne Altree, chairman of the social studies department at Newton High, and Edward Martin, a history teacher there...
...outlined by Martin, the new program involves arranging the course material in topics and illustrating it with anecdotes from original sources. The topics, such as "the growth and purpose of political parties," will be set up to dovetail with the required "Problems of Democracy" course for seniors. The anecdotes will make the material more vivid for the students, Martin said...
Machines or Ike? Nixon napped in his suite for most of the afternoon, then settled down to await the results, wearing a lounging robe over his shirt and trousers. He got his news mostly from staff reports, left the TV set turned off. To Old Pro Nixon, the trend was soon all too obvious; long before most of his supporters, he realized that he was in trouble. While Nixon lieutenants kept up the spirits of 3,000 workers gathered in the ballroom below for a "Nixon-Lodge victory night," Nixon nibbled on sandwiches, sipped champagne. His personal agony was shared...
Under the current system, students living in the dormitories pay a set term rate for room and full board. Box lunches or exchange slips allowing girls to eat in the Graduate Refectory are available only to those with an hour or less between mid-day classes. However, there are many students whose academic schedules make them ineligible for these alternatives, but who spend their afternoons studying in libraries or working in the laboratories. These girls are forced either to waste the time it takes them to go back and forth between the Yard and the hall dining rooms...
...wasting considerably less food than they do at present, when nobody can predict how many will eat there. In addition, when the number of students eating lunch in the dorms fluctuates greatly, the college could provide box lunches or Refectory slips at the standard price under a less stringent set of restrictions, thereby encouraging students to continue paying Radcliffe rather than a commercial establishment for their mid-day meals. Under such a revised system, Administration and students alike would gain from increased efficiency and convenience...