Word: profs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doherty's concerns ran deeper than enrollments, endowments, or even research; he had ideas for changing Tech's curriculum that made many an old-line technical prof shudder. Doherty was among the forward-looking men in technical education who realized just how limited a strictly technical education might be. However skilled they were, he decided, most engineers were "illiterate about the world around them." They were able to do amazing things within their own narrow fields, but they were helpless once they went beyond. As professional leaders and as citizens, said Doherty, they were next to useless...
...driven to a deserted highway excavation, eased the pot down into the mud ("to dirty it up a bit"), and hauled it back to his office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert on anthropology . . . declared that the bean pot was definitely authentic and 'at least 50 years old . . .' " Following the sound rule of never trying to make a chump of a city editor, Wood also candidly tipped the city desks that it was just a polite hoax...
...origin of the bust, which was undamaged except for a small scratch over the left one. The only clues were the inscription on the front of the statue, "Charles Tallinn 1810-1881," and the name of the clutter and the date of completion of the work on the back, "Prof. R. H. Park...
Boston newspapers contribute to the numbers racket by publishing the prof- ious day's winning figure--usually the three digits, from top to bottom, to the left of the decimal point in the "Suffolk Mutuols"; some pools make use of U.S. Treasury reports...
...history. In class he had his own brand of brilliance. Lumbering slowly back & forth across his platform, arms folded across his chest, he had a way of making history come alive without resorting to flashy dramatics. Students flocked to hear him and seven times voted him their most popular prof essor. In 1943, when Columbia College needed a new dean, President Nicholas Murray Butler picked Carman...