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Like most other institutions of higher learning, Harvard relies on lectures, discussion in section meetings, and assigned reading to impart knowledge to the individual student. The efficacy of the system of instruction usually isn't questioned. It's all taken for granted. Yet at least one part of it--the lecture system--while it may be the best available, is certainly not without its drawbacks. Why should anywhere from 30 to 400 students crowd into stuffy, hot, uncomfortable lecture rooms to hear a professor who may stutter, speak indistinctly, be ill at ease, and in general be much less effective...
...born on his father's river barge. He went to work on a farm at the age of twelve, grew up to be a side show wrestler at country fairs. A straightforward ox of a man, Bombois still has all the complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent and gave him a drubbing. The villagers knocked...
...specific Andover tactics have been emphasized in recent Yardling defense practices, but Rosenau is expected to impart his familiarity with Andover tricks as well as his powerful blocking and defensive work to the efforts of his new alma mater...
...This is also manifest in the domain of sex education, where our negativism is notorious. We start early to speak obscurely of sexual prohibitions but impart very little legitimate positive information to the child. We ignore the fact that, unlike brute animals whose sex behavior is largely instinctual, the rational animal's sex practices are learned. . . . Catholics have much to learn from Freudians regarding sex development and the capital importance of early sexual experiences. . . . Indeed, Freudians can teach much regarding the entire role of family figures in the upbringing of a child, regarding the ideal father, mother, brother...
...would be nice if the Church could eliminate scandals too!) Catholics ought to be respectful of this work while they are catching up on a road where they have too long lagged behind. Mutual respect and good relations having been established with the analysts, Catholics can then hope to impart some of the wisdom which they feel is their...