Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benjamin W. Labaree, for two years assistant senior tutor in Leverett House, will replace Albert A. Mavrinac as Senior Tutor of Winthrop House next year, Master David E. Owen announced yesterday. Labaree, a 1950 graduate of Yale, will also be an instructor in History...
...thrilled by the story of Lieut. James Obenauf's courageous action in bringing a doomed B-47 in for a safe landing to save the life of the navigator-instructor Major Joseph Maxwell [May 12]. I have no idea in what school or college Obenauf received his education, but if he is a product of our American family life and our educational system, I say pfui to TIME, LIFE and other advocates of the Russian educational system...
...younger boys' science instructor is Engineer Lucien Lepkowski, who teaches the class for fun. Lepkowski started his class cautiously, soon found that little boys could "go much deeper in the search for facts than anyone would imagine is possible." First areas for the search: the insides of small gasoline and electric motors, which the young scholars can now take apart and explain. The boys ask hard questions, e.g., why do salt and sugar crystals, seen under a borrowed microscope, look different? In the older boys' science class, taught for $5 an hour by Junior High Science Teacher Arthur...
...respect for Harvard--tempered, however, by amusement. Born in New Haven as the son of a Yalie, he first came to Cambridge in 1936 as a student in a summer course in composition and short story writing. After about three weeks, he dropped out, "in order to help the instructor, who seemed in most desperate need of help." At this time, Capp moved from his home on Brattle Street and took up residence in New Hampshire. He returned to Cambridge eight years...
...than the student, which is at fault. "If you cast your net terribly wide" in accepting graduate students, he explains, you may well get graduates who are not as good as the Harvard student. In that case there will be prejudice for the undergraduate on the part of the instructor...