Word: baer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They read too much, remember too much, and don't chow it over," said Theodore S. Baer '46. Instructor in General Education. "They are fact-minded rather than idea-minded." Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, agreed, "Radcliffe girls have a marked tendency to study too hard nd think too little...
Most of the instructors noted that the women are good, solid, conscientious, and rarely brilliant; they strike a steady mean, while the men tend more to extremes. Baer added, "They work like hell, the competition is extremely intensive in grades, dress, and social life, and they desperately want to get on Dean's List...
...Mississippi on a pre-Civil War gambling boat, Tyrone Power, a dashing but honest adventurer, has all sorts of remarkable experiences. He encounters a ravishing redhead (Piper Laurie), whom he affectionately calls "pepper pot," but she declines to have anything to do with him because her weakling brother (John Baer) lost an old family heirloom to him during a game of chance. Just to complicate matters more, Piper's brother is hopelessly smitten with brunette Julia Adams, who, in turn, is infatuated with Power...
...delivered too rapidly, that the bulk of the material was too often merely factual. However, all throught that the lectures were very well organized and therefore easy to take notes on. '55 found the background material presented in the lectures, although not absolutely essential, both interesting and helpful. Individually, Baer, Conway, and Graubard were applauded for being consistently "good" to "inspiring"; Malia was "dull and disorganized" during the fall term, with a good deal of improvement in the spring...
SECTION MEN: Conway, head section man of Social Sciences 2 before he began teaching this course, was received with enthusiasm. '55 described him as undogmatic, taking a great deal of interest in the student; all thought that he "knew his stuff." Another section man from Social Sciences 2, Baer, was praised as sympathetic, fair, very competent, interested in his students. A Social Sciences 1 man, Graubard, was an "extremely capable teacher," interested both in the course and in the student, and quite helpful in explaining the more difficult material. Malia was described as competent, though more so in the spring...