Word: morrison
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...given, there be substituted a procedure which will be more directly connected with the introductory courses in general education." Whether students can in fact get training in the technique of writing in conjunction with another course is up to the Sub-committee on Educational Problems to decide. Theodore Morrison '23, director of English A and a member of the committee, is skeptical about trying to teach composition without a trained and large staff...
...Morrison has his own solution to the problem of brining English A closer to other fields of learning. It is a system which he has been using since he assumed direction of the course in 1930. At that time he liberalized the subject matter for English A themes to include topics with which students would have outside acquaintances rather than the pre-1939 diet of literary compositions. "Then we added the practice of assigning a long research paper each term to teach freshmen the rudiments of thesis writing," Morrison explains...
...HUGH MORRISON...
...colleges, lecturing (fee: $200-$300) and reading his poems (in a voice Padraic Colum once likened to the barking of an eagle), spends a couple of months in Florida where he has a small house in Coral Gables, summers at his Vermont farm, which he shares with the Morrison family: Harvard Lecturer (and poet) Theodore Morrison* and his wife Kathleen. Both at Cambridge and Ripton, "K," serves as a sort of combined secretary, manager and friend, handles Frost's correspondence, types his poems, fends off unwanted callers, fusses over his diet and clothes, tries to see that he gets...
...Then Morrison got down to politics: by attempting to exercise the power of veto over the government, Churchill was aiming to force a coalition on the Labor Party. Up jumped Tory Oliver Lyttleton: "We do not want it." Retorted Morrison: "Do not . . . make any mistake. Half the jokers . . . from that Front Bench want a coalition...