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...better thermostat, but gives him, instead, all the principles he will need to know in thermodynamics. No matter what their courses, Supple and Andelin learned by solving problems, and the steps they took in their solutions were far more important than their answers. Theoretically, a Caltech student may ar rive at all the wrong answers on exams, and still get passing marks if his professor believes that his thinking is sound. The whole idea, says Biologist George Beadle, is to avoid "the descriptive tech nique, which is just learning things by rote. In the analytical approach, you learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Purists | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Against Wesleyan, all ten Crimson players won their matches, with only one going to five games. Tomes, Wister, Ward, Rauh, Rose, Garrigue, and Brown won straight three-game wins. Brownell and Paschal each won in four and Stone clinched the shut-out with a rive-game victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squash Team Posts Wins Over Trinity, Wesleyan | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...wanna know why the picture stinks? Because they took a story about a jockey by Ernie Hemingway. It was called "My Old Man," and they decided to make a picture out of it. Sure, sure, they got some good actors for it. They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good, too, but if I had my way I'd ram that little brat's teeth down his gullet. I never saw anything as stupid as a lousy...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

Cambridge isn't Paris, so free women with a knowledge of French are harder to find around the Yard than on the rive gauche, but that isn't hindering the French Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Left Bank Club Seeks Girls for Production | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...rine Gunnery Sergeant on retirement pay), we have all we can do to exist - let alone spend money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same joy we'd have in receiving a crisp new $100 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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