Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went into the mines during high-school vacations, studied mining engineering at Penn State ('24). After graduation, he went back to the pits, by 1936 worked up from assistant foreman to general manager of Madeira Hill & Co., later became president of Phoenix Contracting...
...each six books to read-Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture, Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, and Short Story Masterpieces, edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine...
Describing the educational television program in effect at Penn. State University, Leslie P. Greenhill said that college students often prefer watching a televised class to sitting in a large lecture hall. They like the small room, the improved vision, the lack of distractions, and the fact that the camera directs their attention toward the lecturer, he said...
According to Greenhill, careful tests of the achievement and attitudes of students who had watched televised classes and those who had actually attended the lectures showed no significant difference. The faculty at Penn State is still largely undecided about televised classes, he said, pointing out that it takes a teacher about twice as much time to prepare a lecture for television as to prepare a regular class...
Yale had four firsts, four seconds and five thirds, for 37 points, while Harvard amassed 5 firsts, three seconds and two thirds, for 36 points. Princeton followed with 32 points and then Cornell, 28, Dartmouth, 12, Penn, 9, Columbia, 9, and Brown...