Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornell instructor, who formerly taught at Harvard, emphasized the willingness of Cornell students to join in classroom discussion, a quality he found somewhat lacking at Harvard because of "inhibitions" produced by the dominance of the lecture system. While admitting that Cornell students often lack the secondary school background and the outward air of sophistication of Harvard undergraduates, he felt that the open-mindedness and "eagerness to learn" of most Cornell students provided a balance...
...Bureau's initial statement outlined its position as follows: "We feel that an instructor in Economics should instruct in economic principles rather than indoctrination. We take issue with the statement of Dr. Mitchell that 'you cannot separate economics from politics...
Among professors cited is Marcus Singer, professor of zoology at Cornell University and a former instructor at Harvard. Singer had admitted before the Velde Committee to former membership in a Communist discussion group at Cornell, but refused to name any of his associates on the grounds of "honor and conscience," and of the Fifth Amendment. Among the questions which he refused to answer were "Did you know Wendell H. Furry as a member of the Communist Party?" "Did you know Helen Deane Markham to be a member of the Communist Party?" nd "Was Wendell H. Furry engaged in hose Communist...
...Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for August, is an album of Teddy and family from the turn of the century through World War I. Author Hermann Hagedorn, a former Harvard English instructor who has written or edited six previous books on T.R. (The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands), knew and loved the family well. His camera is sometimes less than candid, but even when freckles and awkward angles are airbrushed out, his snapshots are warm, intimate closeups that usually show what the outsider wants...
Among professors cited is Marcus Singer, professor of zoology at Cornell University and a former instructor at Harvard. Singer had admitted before the Velde Committee to former membership in a Communist discussion group at Cornell, but refused to name any of his associates on the grounds of "honor and conscience," and of the Fifth Amendment. Among the questions which he refused to answer were "Did you know Wendell H. Furry as a member of the Communist Party?" "Did you know Helen Deane Markham to be a member of the Communist Party?" and "Was Wendell H. Furry engaged in those Communist...