Word: professor
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...Professor V.O. Key has pointed out, "The Senate is a talking mill, not an acting mill." The most able Senate Relations Committee is no substitute for a Secretary of State or for a vigorous administration. Senators can urge, they can criticize, but they cannot implement. There is no way that the Senate can exercise the President's power, no matter how great the need for action or how impotent the President...
Governor Furcolo presented a proposal to increase the size of classes in American colleges, made recently by Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, to President Eisenhower Sunday. He urged that a Presidential Commission study the plan...
...Repeated experiments show that the greatest educational gains come either in a large lecture with a top professor, or in very small seminar-type classes," Harris maintained. He called classes of between 25 and 75 students "worthless," and suggested that those with "small educational value" be dropped...
Nevertheless, she delighted her professors. William James taught her philosophy and psychology. He was then, as Elisabeth Sprigge writes in her book, Gertrude Stein, Life and Work, "a bright-bearded exuberant man in his early fifties with neither the appearance nor the manner of a University professor.... James liked unusual people and appreciated this rollicking girl, this clever unusual pupil...
Several members of the Committee on General Education have predicted, however, that the present policy on finals may not be retained if the tendency of the changes continues. Noting that Professors Brower, Guerard, and Riesman teach courses without finals, one member of the Committee put his view of the situation this way, "If one professor, and then one more, and one more is allowed to do it, sooner or later the whole program will have to be re-examined...