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...engineer 240 1000 210 1100 Cleary, M., salesman 365 1728 240 1920 Dushman, B., B.U. student 536 2583 522 2510 Fabiyi, E., trainee, A.D.L. 220 1584 270 780 Hamlen, D., ins't supervisor 490 1500 402 1000 Hoagland, J., vice pres. 320 3000 236 1160 Jones, L., assoc. prof. 415 3225 280 2416 Jones, M., math teacher 362 624 260 1160 Turner, A., librarian 278 840 272 934 Peet, G., planning engineer 403 1584 230 958 Liveson, ay, dr. of neurology 652 2450 450 2100 McCarriston, J., student 356 1608 272 900 Morgan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meet George Scialabba, 19 He likes to play Squash He is a Junior at Harvard He can read 2000 words a minute | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

...leads to a concentration on answers rather than problems-and it is "dishonest and the students know it." Teachers coach the kids for the tests and care more about "the appearance" of knowledge than for real understanding. "What would happen," Holt asks, "at Harvard or Yale if a prof gave a surprise test in March on work covered in October? Everyone knows what would happen; that's why they don't do it." In this "temple of worship for right answers, the way to get ahead is to lay plenty of them on the altar." The whole system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Fear of Being Wrong | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...price of a plastic disc, one often wonders what peculiar force continues to attract listeners to a concert given by amateurs. The near-capacity crowds at Sanders during the past two Thursday nights suggest however, that Audio-Lab has yet to monopolize the listener's world. Last night Prof. Harold Schmidt of Stanford conducted the Summer School Chorus and Cantabrigia Orchestra in a program that was as varied in quality as it was in repertoire. Realizing that an entire evening of full chorus and orchestra would be a dubious effort on only seven weeks of rehearsal, Schmidt wisely reduced...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: Summer School Chorus | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...clubs, not terribly difficult to put together and always effective. The singers also made the most of Holderlin's Weltschmerz. Accompanist Robert Kopelson's two-piano arrangement was the best thing next to a full orchestra. He and Lowell Lindgren played it admirably, managing to succeed in spite of Prof. Schmidt's inconquerable compulsion to conduct even them...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: Summer School Chorus | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...PROF.) EDMUND P. HECHT Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1967 | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

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