Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early Renaissance masterpieces of Giotto and Botticelli. Later comes "The Age of Exploration" with its hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and a grinning mask which Montezuma presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring "The Age of Enlightenment" to life. A sketch of Marie Antoinette riding to the guillotine does the same for "The Age of Revolutions." Missouri Painter George Caleb...
Until 1718 the Collegiate School wandered around in various small Connecticut towns, always under the heavy influence of Harvard and Harvard men. Its first full-time instructor was Daniel Hooker 1700. Its first B.A. was awarded to John Hart, a transfer student from the Harvard Class of 1704. Indeed, The Collegiate School seemed rather anxious to accept Harvard transfers, while Cambridge authorities were at first unwilling to recognize Collegiate's degrees...
Chairman Alan Blackmer, English instructor at Andover, said the committee hopes to propose a means "to make a more coherent and effective whole of General Education before specialization begins." John M. Kemper, Headmaster at Andover, gave a brief description of the plan during a dinner at M.I.T. Thursday night. He described the program as designed to ease the transition from school to college...
...spite of this gloomy future, von Stade enjoys his work very much. "After being graduated from Harvard, I decided that I wanted to teach. I was an instructor at my old school in New Hampshire, St. Paul's, for a year. After that, I did a year of graduate work at the University of North Carolina and then returned to Harvard to work in Dean Hanford's office. I came here because I thought I would get more gratification out of working with students of college age. And I am tremendously interested in the ideal of this institution--to give...
Finishing off their work in the building are Erwin Raisz, lecturer on Geographical Exploration and Curator of Maps at the Institute, and Edward S. Wood, Jr., instructor in Aerophotography. Their courses have been discontinued, but they will continue to work on research projects until the University moves them...