Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of Susruta's knowledge was lost to the world for centuries. Not until the 17th Century was the true position of the lens (directly behind the pupil, with no intervening "cataract space") rediscovered; not until the 18th Century was a whole defective lens removed. Over the centuries, Dr. Kirby found, the number of instruments invented for the removal of cataracts (e.g., a glass tube and a hollow needle to withdraw the cataract by suction; a metal loop to flip it out) rivaled the number of operations performed...
Witty and his assistants had had to do quite a bit of translating, to turn pupil-talk into teacher-talk. But they had settled on twelve qualities of a good teacher...
...never makes fun of any pupil before the class...
...these great events was only dimly heard in Wu's classroom. Wu was a bright pupil. Because he was the smallest boy in his class, he was invariably seated in the first row where he could get a better view of the blackboard. Next to him in the front row usually sat a mandarin's son named Chou Enlai...
...Textile Engineering Building, with mill rooms, classrooms, laboratories and a 300-seat auditorium, all enclosed in a structure as simple as a box. Dean Joseph Hudnut of Harvard's Faculty of Design has estimated that Harvard's new Graduate Center will cost only $3,500 per pupil, as opposed to the $12,500 in previous dormitories...