Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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N.E.A. field studies in Mississippi and Louisiana turned up some appalling cases. Until last summer, Fred McCoy was principal of the all-black Midway Elementary School in Natalbany, La. Integration closed his school, and he was assigned to teach a fourth-grade class at a formerly all-white school-in the morning. In the afternoon, he was expected to do janitor's chores in the school latrines. At least McCoy kept busy. A black former principal in Louisiana has been given a desk to sit at but no title or duties that he has been able to determine...
...position in the English department, despite the fact that no opening existed. In Dayton, Texas (pop. 3,000), where the local high school has only 455 students, Principal Kenneth Almond has received job inquiries from 15 Ph.D.s in physics at universities across the country. "And yet," says Almond, "we teach only one elementary physics course to an average bunch of students...
...this kind of behavior which Harvard has always wanted to teach- or rather has hoped that it might in some degree exemplify in its teachers and teachings, and so strongly represent that those coming here to learn would inevitably find it for themselves- and finding it, be beguiled by its charm and sign on for life in allegiance...
What Pusey said then was essentially that although it might be true that communists had no right to teach at universities, there were no communists left at Harvard. He had already removed any he could find. He told McCarthy that Harvard had to be free to police itself. We begin to see that what repulsed Pusey about Joe McCarthy was not his politics, for Pusey too disliked communism. Rather it was McCarthy's piggish style. A liberal system must always weed out its enemies, but with understated elegance...
Slightly more than half the 147-member summer Faculty have Corporation appointments- that is, they teach or administer at Harvard in the winter. Another third either taught or studied here previously during the regular school year...