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...also that there is a considerable amount of uninspired, inexperienced, and weak teaching. We had to note that whereas the department heads and senior Faculty were generally satisfied with the quality of teaching fellow appointments, the undergraduates we talked to were by no means as unanimous. For the sake of a high quality of instruction in the College it is important that serious attention be paid to the qualifications of men and women appointed as teaching fellows, and that this program should not be thought of, in any department, as mainly a program of financial aid for graduate students...
...most enthusiastic supporter of exams for their own sake was Thomas C. Schnilling, professor of Economics. He finds four specific ways in which exams are educationally useful, and one general advantage; "Students get few enough rewards for their study; perhaps we should provide them, in the form of examinations...
...stunt. The same amount of information could be gained simply by landing an instrument package on the moon--a far easier and less expensive project. Also, such a venture would not need to endanger the life of an American astronaut in a program forced to sacrifice safety for the sake of speed...
...colleges. Lying between Mory's famed saloon and the gym, this walkway separates the colleges in a cavernous passage while louvered windows peep through sandy slabs. The atmosphere is similar to Yale's Gothic buildings of the 1920s-though one modern-for-modern's-sake critic likens it to a set for Ivanhoe. Determined to avoid the typical cookie-cut module, Saarinen decided that as far as possible no two rooms should be alike. Result: though at first scorned, his Stiles and Morse colleges are the most sought-after digs at Yale...
...education is both sophisticated and complex: he realizes the crucial peripheral tasks that a university must perform, but he does not confuse peripheral task with what he conceives of as purpose. After a great deal of agonizing--evident in almost every speech--he has concluded that knowledge for the sake of knowledge is still central to education, and that the university exists in order to support the community that nurtures...