Word: developed
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There were the familiar complaints about the computerized life. Poet James Dickey warned at California's San Fernando Valley State College that, on the edge of the "anonymous modern abyss, you must develop your private brinksmanship, your strategies, your ruses, your delightful and desperate games of inner survival, whether they take the form of Batman comics or whistling Handel's Water Music, enabling you to live perpetually at the edge but very much on your own ground." It was Yale's President Kingman Brewster who perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against...
Howard H. Aiken, professor of applied mathematics, Emeritus, received a Doctor of Science degree for his work in helping to develop the computer. Marston Morse, a pioneer in the mathematical field of variational theory in the large, also received a Doctor of Science degree...
...teaching techniques which Stein stresses in the course and for which the German Department at Harvard is famous are aural-oral. Stein counsels his future college teachers to develop in their students the ability for automatic response and communications--the same kind a child develops learning his native language. He opposes this to the old-fashioned grammar-and-translation approach. In fact, a "Do's and Don'ts" sheet which Stein distributes to his teaching fellows concludes with a warning: "There is a departmental ban on the use of the words 'memorize' and 'translate,' and a total...
...Graduate School, said that he was very impressed with the present teacher-training program. It's a dandy thing and it produces excellent teaching fellows," Elder said. He and Stein are both in favor of other Harvard departments and other universities following the Harvard German Department's lead to develop complete teaching fellow programs. A lot of students apparently...
...were made at committee meetings during the year--abolishing the Ed School, for example--but none of the committee's members, according to Scheffler, is an extremist. "There was a substantial feeling that there is value in trying to bring the three interpretations under one roof, and trying to develop them in conjunction with one another," he recalls...