Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Report adds one recommendation to those made in the section on teaching methods; instructors should use the case method of presentation more closely. This, with the proposals to revise essay assignments, to add a fifth course in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and to set up section man seminars, is a good beginning toward solving G.E.'s present problems...
...committee used a statistical system in recording students opinion of G.E. Questionnaires wre mailed to 674 students, of whom 73% replied, Section men, who were also polled, returned only about half of their essay-type questionnaires...
...Protestantism's foremost theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr.*has written a thoughtful and hardheaded essay on his country's political philosophy. The Irony of American History (Scribner; $2.50) is an odd-sounding title-most native commentaries on U.S. politics stress such words as "challenge," "promise" or "hope." Niebuhr uses his word advisedly. Not so final as tragedy, not so hopeless as pathos, the ironic view is a Christian study of the "unconscious weakness" by which classic American strengths and virtues have subtly developed into shortcomings...
Before coming here, Hughes was with the Office of Strategic Services during the war. Since he has been teaching at Harvard, he has published "An Essay for Our Times," and "Oswald Spengler--A Critical Estimate...
Later, Adler sent her long, peremptory reading lists ("Go to some library and get John Morley's essay, 'On Compromise.' Don't put this off. Get it somehow. Buy it in a bookstore if necessary. I'll go halves with you . . . Which reminds me that you ought to read the New Testament this summer...