Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keyed to the sciences. Students learn, for instance, the sort of culture England had when Newton developed his laws of motion. But the liberal arts range widely and independently. This year Harvey Mudd's 43 sophomores will write major research papers on nonscientific subjects. Says Assistant English Professor George Wickes: "We don't want to turn out lopsided kids...
Anybody with enough education credits can teach anything, in the view of some school administrators. All too often, charges Donald R. Tuttle. professor of English at Cleveland's Fenn College, the rule for teachers of English becomes simply, "Anybody who speaks English can teach it." Result, according to Tuttle: only a third of the English teachers in U.S. secondary schools have studied their subject extensively, and another third is "seriously underprepared...
...radio tinkerer in high school, worked his way through local Midwestern colleges. His interest in radio led him to a Ph.D. in physics at Yale (1925), and he began studying ionization, the electrification of atoms by loss or gain of electrons. At 27 he was made an associate professor at the University of California, in 1930 conceived the idea of the cyclotron, which has been called "as useful in research as the microscope...
...Still in the works for CBS's U.S. Steel Hour: a TV play about the life of Sigmund Freud, anticipating a planned movie. The odds are nicely balanced. While the movie makers have Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to write the script, TV has Farley Granger to play Professor Freud...
Demythologization? In the last half-century, said Dr. Wilhelm Pauck, a Congregationalist and professor of church history at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Christianity has suffered serious blows: 1) in terms of influence, it has become a minority movement in the world, and 2) the faithful have deserted organized churches in droves. In short, "Christianity stands at the fringe of the common life today. It no longer shapes it." What happened? According to Dr. Pauck, the fault lies with the churches, which "have refused to demythologize the Gospel . . . They have lost the people because they do not speak...