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Zacharias will devote particular attention to the use of films and other audio-visual aids in group instruction. The use of such devices in the teaching of a mathematical science is "quite new and revolutionary," according to Edwin H. Sauer, lecturer on Education.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zacharias to Discuss Audio-Visual Method Of Giving Physics | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

"In our rapidly growing population, regardless of the level of total productivity, there will always be a greater relative proportion of middle and lower income class people who have children deserving of a higher education but unable to pay the price of the private institution. . . . As the college-age population...

Author: By Claude E. Welch, | Title: Academic Freedom and the State: The Overriding Problem of UMass | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

The college will shun short-term specialization, emphasize principles that endure through technological changes. Oakland will offer degrees in only four fields: liberal arts, engineering, business, teaching. Every student will devote half his time to humanities, spend a full year studying the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Invitation to Living | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

For the next three years, Quincy devoted himself to his practice, his wife, and his studies. The Puritan Ethic did not permit idle time; Quincy's dairy is replete wtih statements such as, "I resolve, therefore, in future to be more circumspect--to hoard my moments with a more thrifty...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Josiah Quincy and His School for 'Gentlemen' | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Rickenbacker's move, made "to devote a major share of time and energies to basic policy matters,'' marks a milestone in U.S. aviation. After his World War I service as the U.S.'s "ace of aces" (26 German aircraft), genial, jut-jawed Eddie Rickenbacker plumped hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: New Pilot at Eastern | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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