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...life is a grind for the undergraduate, it is a grist mill for the advanced student. Already equipped with some scientific training, the grad student finds Tech more a job where he is an apprentice than a school where he is a learner. For him this is no 9-5 day, 40-hour week proposition. The chemical engineers and spectroscopists may work around the clock figures on a dial, and the night lights of the architectural drafting room are a beacon that can be seen as far down Mass. Ave, as Central Square...
...situations or vocations. Humor, and especially satire and parody, requires a divorcement of the subject from consequence. In this respect, it is not an idle assumption that "learning at the College level" took on new importance to the typical Harvard undergraduate in the 30's. A new type the "learner," quickly infiltrated the student body and greatly influenced but did not wholly replace the old type, the "liver...
Maestro. In Manchester, England, after an inept pupil backed the learner's car onto a sidewalk, Auto Instructor Handel Andrew indignantly took the wheel, promptly smacked into a lamppost, was fined ?3 ($8.40) for careless driving...
...schools must face the problems of both the slow learner and the gifted pupil...
...Fast Learner. Namatjira's rise started when two Melbourne artists, Rex Battarbee and John Gardner, came to the bush on a painting trip and showed some of their watercolors to the Hermannsburg aborigines. Albert was fascinated. He brooded about the white man's wondrous colors, and eventually made a proposition: he would serve Battarbee as camel boy if Battarbee would teach him to paint. Battarbee agreed, supplied Albert with brushes and paints, and gave him a few pointers on color. Two weeks later, as Battarbee recalls, "Albert brought along a painting ... I immediately saw his talent. Here...