Word: freidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smithies traveled in India for six weeks this winter, lecturing under the auspices of the United States Information Agency. Freidel spent last month there as a State Department specialist lecturing in American history...
...Allahabad, Calcutta, and Bombay, Freidel participated in seminars sponsored by the USIA for people interested in teaching American studies in Indian universities. His talks traced the political and economic history of the United States from 1933 to the present...
...Frank B. Freidel, professor of History, praised the work of Peace Corpsmen and other Americans in India, who are making a "splendid impression" on the Indian people. The Peace Corps is achieving "spectacular results" in helping farmers increase production, according to Smithies, but he added that it is an "enormous pity that the operation is so tiny. If it were spread throughout the country many Indian agricultural problems would be on the way to solution...
...Freidel returned to Cambridge early in February from India--where he had been on a lecture tour sponsored by the State Department--to find numerous complaints about the grading of final exams...
...Freidel was so upset by the reports that he hired a grader with his own money to reread the bluebooks. He also read many of them himself. According to Freidel, one of the course assistants had made "several errors in judgment," which necessitated the changes in grades...