Word: fines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among members of the nonmining faculty at Columbia, the huge gifts caused some wondering. The School of Mines has a fine tradition-it was founded in 1864 and is the oldest in the country-but it has only 49 students and nine professors, for years has been merely a department of the School of Engineering. The wonderment is understandable: the chair of mining will be one of the U.S.'s most heavily endowed professorships...
...them is a McGuffey Reader, copyrighted in 1879). submitted test results showing that their pupil has progressed some two years ahead of his contemporaries. The prosecution refused to argue about curriculum, and later, School Superintendent Thomas Campbell's only remark was: "We feel we have a real fine elementary school program...
...young man who is quite surprised to discover that by splitting open his father's head he has became a hero to everyone within miles of the Flaherty shebeen. "It's great luck and company I've won me in the end of time," he says, "--two fine women fighting for the likes of me--till I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in the years gone...
...Last year, when he conducted the Bach Society Orchestra, Senturia did a fine job," commented Ward. "He is a superb musician and he acted in a selfless way, interested in the orchestra rather than in himself as conductor...
Thus the natural science program could provide a basic level of math achievement and a certain working with science itself. To place science in its historical setting is a fine objective and might be valuably continued to some degree, but primary emphasis should be placed on learning science itself, not its cultural setting. Such a program as the above is no panacea to the problems attendant upon teaching science, but without sacrificing choice (since commitments to any particular course would be only for a semester, not a year), it offers a higher level of achievement. The demands and satisfactions...