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Starting almost from scratch, the School has built up in the last ten years close contact with the local school systems. An internship program to give Ed School students a term of practice teaching was set up in 1954, and in order to give them additional experience the six-week Harvard-Newton Summer School was begun...
...Both the internship plan and the summer school had their start as adjuncts of Harvard's Master of Arts in Teaching program. The purpose of the M.A.T. program is to attract good students from liberal arts colleges, and in a year of study, to give them further work in their own subject, under the FAS, and professional training in methods of instruction and the role of the schools, under the Faculty of Education...
...From a memorandum sent recently by the director of Elementary School Internship and Apprentice Teaching at the Harvard School of Education to students entering the School's 1963-64 Plan A program for a master's degree in elementary education...
...American who aspired to greatness in surgery went to Europe for training. The U.S. remained a medical outpost. Its own great man was Johns Hopkins University's William S. Halsted (1852-1922), who nurtured a frontiersman's egalitarian ideas: residents in surgery (M.D.s who have finished their internship and are in specialist training) should be encouraged to use both their hands and their heads. The most brilliant product of Halsted's revolutionary residency system was the great brain surgeon...
Students do get practice. "The big word now is internship," says President Stuart Anderson of the Pacific School of Religion. Cambridge Episcopal requires its students to spend a summer interning in hospitals and prisons. Lutheran seminarians from Concordia in St. Louis visit general or mental hospitals weekly for lectures on practical psychology. William B. Abernethy, 23, of Union Theological, is typical of those who found some of their preconceptions shattered; when he conducted a Bible study class with a group of East Harlem housewives, he says, marveling, "These women would come up with insights more profound and incisive than...