Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another instructor pointed out a woman studying psychology in the hope of understanding her teen-age daughter. Sitting next to her was a dowager who audited all courses on general principles. Graduate students learning French for a reading requirement study with secretaries saving for a trip to Paris...
There is the added difficulty of antecedence and homework: "It's impossible to assume that most will attend and do the reading with any regularity, as you can about a college class," one instructor said. "Some come from as far as Providence on the coldest of nights and have read everything I suggested. Others don't even buy the books and attend perhaps half the lectures. At five dollars per half course, each lectures costs only fifteen cents, which few mind wasting...
Life during the later twenties helped to clarify his protest. He writes of his experience in 1927 as an instructor at Smith College: "This was the middle twenties, and the spirit of the period was handsomely embodied on the Smith campus. Among certain conspicuous members of the faculty a pattern of ideas and values was accepted and promulgated that seems to me now the very essence of the decade. They all subscribed to at least three articles of faith. They believed first that science would prove the salvation of humanity, and they had unlimited confidence in the ability...
Already at Harvard when Hicks arrived was another figure who gained prominence because of his communist affiliation: Robert Gorham Davis '29, at present a professor at Smith College, then an instructor at the University. He joined the party in January 1937 and attended the same cell meetings as Hicks, Wendell H. Furry, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, now University Professor at the University of Chicago, and several other lesser-known graduate students and junior-grade faculty members...
...constitutionally competent for the General Court to enact a law for the discharge of any professor, instructor or teacher at any college, university, teacher's college, or public or private school in the Commonwealth who refuses... to answer questions pertinent to his past or present membership in the Communist Party...