Word: imam
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Salahuddin Imam edits a weekly feature on Radicalism in the CRIMSON
...records and glad records and bad records and sad records and one day it will all end. But it hasn't yet, I don't think. Where is the foolhardy soul who dares to admit that he thought in 1965 that the Beatles were all washed-up? --SALAHUDDIN I. IMAM...
...approved by legally constituted medical authorities, either because their value has not been proved or because they have been shown to be worthless. This covers the activities of M.D.s as well as those of unlicensed practitioners. * Among them: Pope Pius XII, King Ibn Saud of Arabia, the Imam of Yemen, Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson. Though Niehans did not personally treat Sir Winston Churchill or Konrad Adenauer, they used his cellular injections...
...crucial argument Mr. Imam makes for his scheme is that it would make study and learning "circular" rather than "linear." For many non-science courses (Fine Arts, Ec. 1, Soc. Sci. 2) learning ought to be linear. As for the rest, it is not clear that a switch in the sequence of lectures and reading solves the problem. Students now miss significant points of lectures or forget them by the time they get to the reading. Under the new system they would miss the importance of much of the reading (save for bits they scurried back to reread after...
Obviously this parallel is a bit specious since reading and lectures have different functions. But I do think lectures can legitimately be introductory, and that Mr. Imam's proposal lifts them to an independent eminence they rarely have. The final act in most courses finds the student putting the primary materials together in his own way, and it may be enough for lectures to suggest how this might be done. Lawrence J. Richardson...