Word: profs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student has to devour his books, but he need never sweat his grades because at U.C.L.A. med school there are none. If a man is doing badly, a faculty member will advise him. If he wonders how he is getting along, he has only to ask a prof, who will find out and tell him. Under U.C.L.A.'s system, only one student has been flunked, out of the first 196 enrolled...
Outwardly, Eero (pronounced arrow) Saarinen (rhymes with far-'n-then) looks like a country family doctor, dresses with the casualness of a young college prof, prefers to live clear of the cities, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (pop. 2,100), 18 miles from downtown Detroit. His headquarters is a simply constructed, often cluttered office shed he designed for himself, just two minutes' drive from his home over winding country roads. Even with an office staff of 43, Saarinen's is a small operation by comparison with the major U.S. architectural organizations, e.g., Skidmore, Owings...
This Sock Sigh One prof, it said, was "universally condemned as in previous years" for his "completely irrelevant or utterly useless lectures" which were "unprepared, disorganized and rambling"...besides he told "unfunny dirty stories"... Typical appellations were "inept, insulting and an intellectual sloth...
...only wish that Coach Vie Heyliger had prepared them in the little things before their journey to Colorado Springs. Perhaps he could have had the team invited to Martha Cook to learn the fine art of balancing a tea cup. Their training should also have included a session with Prof. Eisenberg of the Fine Arts Department, so that they would know a Rembrandt from a Goys...
...were to award a prize each year for achievements in the field of academic freedom, Harvard University would certainly be the recipient of the 1954 award. The Cambridge institution just sneaked under the wire when, last month, it took no action against Prof. Wendell Furry, indicted for contempt of Congress...