Word: holton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the new fommulation, the new Gen Ed Committee will be taking over the program at a crucial moment. The professors who have given life to the Gen Ed program since its inception cannot carry the burden much longer. Finley, L. K. Nash, Samuel Beer, and Gerald Holton have taught the same lower-level Gen Ed courses almost every year since the program was made mandatory in 1949. Reuben Brower's Humanities 6 is 11 years...
Cure by Prayer. Texas-born Mary Happer, sister-in-law of General Maxwell D. Taylor, was the sprightly, popular treasurer of the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda, where she started as a dancing teacher in 1927. Among her close friends was unpredictable, withdrawn Dorothy Butts, a Methodist and a former teacher at Holton-Arms. Early this year, Miss Happer, a Christian Scientist, began to complain of stomach pains; by March she had lost 37 Ibs. Finally, despite the tenets of her faith, she was persuaded to see a doctor, who insisted that she enter a hospital for further...
...course will use an approach similar to that Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, employed in his text, Introduction to the Concepts of Physical Science. Holton is co-director of "Project Physics...
...group hopes," Holton said, "to create a physics course that will be appropriate and appealing to a wide spectrum of students.... We hope to interest every type of student, even those initially hostile to science, by showing them that physics is neither an isolated and bloodless body of facts and theories, nor a glorious entertainment, restricted to an elite of specialists...
...Science is of course not everything," Holton said, "but the low number of students who now take physics is particularly worrisome in those cases where the student cannot expect a later college education to make up for deficiencies in science. Even the humblest job in our more and more technical society will require some sound knowledge in the physical sciences and the elements of scientific thought...