Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view with some degree of objectivity my own sorry failure ... I accepted the post with no thought of misappropriation. The first audit was sketchy . . . Subsequent audits found me in varying degrees of embarrassment, but since I was never pinned down, I became . . . amazingly nonchalant about the whole matter, believing, alas, the money would be easily replaced without public scandal or personal discredit...
...classrooms or overloaded schedules that teachers are falling down on the job, said Dean Carman. The big reason is that teachers themselves are not being taught to teach. Said he: "We have persisted in the assumption . . . that good teachers are born, hence cannot be made . . . The truth of the matter is that teachers can be made, but at present are not being made, or are being made badly...
...well-meaning but often dull and routine people . . . When one visits the classrooms of these so-called teachers, he is impressed with the aimlessness of performance. The only apparent purpose the observer can discover is to fill the interval, from bell to bell, with another segment of the subject matter of the course which the student can and should acquire for himself...
...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...
Harvard cannot claim sainthood in the matter of tolerance, but it is interesting to compare the recent Eisler episode--or rather the lack of an "episode"--with instances of egg-throwing and organized hectoring by self-appointed student vigilantes that have dogged "free institutions of learning" throughout the country. The College itself had a disagreeable taste of this last year in the case of the anti-draft meeting in Sanders Theater. That was something most undergraduates were sorry about. The orderly attention to Gerhart Eisler Monday night, on the other hand, was something to be a little proud...