Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, will deliver the fourth lecture in the Harvard Conference on Careers, tonight at 8 p.m., in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. His topic will be "Living and Making a Living...
...Many professors said they felt that it would be definitely beneficial to have more courses introduce a substitute for finals. Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy--although himself an advocate of finals--favored the experimentation because "a professor will feel more confident about asking not to have finals in his course if there is no precedent for them." Most of those contacted said they felt strongly that the course itself rather than any binding rule should decide whether a final is given...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, suggested that Soc Sci 4's change might be a good precedent for many courses. "I think it is generally better to have a paper than an exam," he said, adding that this would, of course, depend on the particular problems of the course...
...seems likely, however, that any experimentation with final examinations will not bring any immediate change in the formal examination setup. Clyde K. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, who lectures in Social Science 4, has put the change in experimental terms...
...flesh," said Dick Neuberger, "be it Republican or Democrat, rich banker or poorly paid college professor. I think now it would be almost impossible to get angry at someone over a political issue. And it doesn't make any difference any more if my wife squeezes toothpaste from the top or the bottom, if the biscuits are burned, or if the living room is cluttered. It isn't true, as you might believe by listening to the speeches and excitement of political conventions, that one party has all the answers and that members of the other party...