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Word: instructors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Van Doren. a Columbia University English instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren clan, also enjoys a stranger triumph. Just by being himself, he has enabled a giveaway show, the crassest of lowbrow entertainments, to whip up a doting mass audience for a new kind of TV idol-of all things, an egghead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The Wizard of Quiz | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...interpreter and village philosopher. All doubts of his ability to play the part should be dispelled by Brando's charmingly engaging performance, even though his enunciation is about as good as that of a prizefighter swallowing his mouthpiece. Also excellent is Glenn Ford who plays the ineffectual (ex-humanities instructor) American captain assigned to bring the blessing of democracy to a village more interested is sitting in the pine grove to watch that evening sun go down and building a teahouse than in erecting the Government-prescribed pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. The teahouse wins out of course, art being the resultant...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Teahouse of the August Moon | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

...effort to determine the type of student interested in coming to Harvard next fall, Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, and Louis Lefeber, instructor in Economics, traveled to New York City last week to interview some of the Hungarian refugees in that area...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Kirkland House Plans To Canvass for $800 | 2/7/1957 | See Source »

What we are looking for, in short, is a change in the curriculum which would provide the opportunity for unbroken research, built upon knowledge gained in courses but going beyond courses by applying the student's, and not the instructor's point of view to a subject; and the chance to work closely with a tutor in a product that would not be graded by the tutor, but instead by someone else (as in the case of the thesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Independent Study | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

What we are looking for, in short, is a change in the curriculum which would provide: the opportunity for unbroken research, built upon knowledge gained in courses by applying the student's, and not the instructor's point of view to a subject; and the chance to work closely with a tutor in a product that would not be graded by the tutor, but instead by someone else (as in the case of the thesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Departure: Toward Independent Study | 1/30/1957 | See Source »

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