Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Schlesinger and I called ourselves the academic twins because we were appointed full professors the name day in 1925 and retired the same day thirty years later." Samuel Eliot Morison '08 professor of History, emeritus recalled yesterday. "He was a great teacher, a great scholar, and a wonderful colleague and friend. His book New Viewpoints in American History broke new ground for our generation of scholars, and nobody did more by personal attention and individual effort to interest students in American history...
Uninspired Dudley and inexperienced Quincy serve as morale-boosters for the other seven teams in an improved, more efficiently run league. Hindered by a lack of practice, Quincy's major hope for the future is sophomore right-halfback Mike Knapp, brother of last year's varsity standout, Rhodes Scholar Rob Knapp. Standings Team Won Lost Tied Points Eliot 3 1 0 6 Kirkland 3 1 0 6 Lowell 3 1 0 6 Adams 2 1 1 5 Leverett 2 1 0 4 Winthrop 1 2 1 3 Dunster 1 2 0 2 Dudley 0 2 0 2 Quincy...
...Child. A stocky, ruddy-faced man of 57, Levine is a rarity in New York's weary school system. He is a lawyer, a Latin expert, a Talmudic scholar and a musician. Notwithstanding those interests, he gives tireless attention to teaching, even after 34 years in the profession. One of education's foremost functions, argues Levine, is "to build up the child's image of himself," and the foundation for that is to teach children to read. If they fail at reading, he says, they may fail at everything, and the child who cannot read "becomes...
While willing to listen to the kids, Brewster and Yale are not about to let even a good teacher reach tenure without publishing. The study report still insists that the published papers of a tenure candidate are "the most tangible and enduring demonstration of a scholar's distinction...
...Jersey Standard's chair man, was bothered by a kidney ailment He pressed for a younger successor and last week he had his wish. Taking over the $125,000 job: courtly, cerebral James McCormack, 54, a retired major general with degrees from Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar studying modern languages) and from West Point and M.I.T. (both in engineering) who is now an M.I.T. vice president and an overseer of its two largest Government-research laboratories...