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When he joined the Harvard faculty in 1948, Skinner introduced his new teaching ideas in his course, Nat Sci 114. For twelve years he taught the course--on "Human Behavior," in which students learned much of the material from machines in Sever Hall's self-instruction room. When Skinner retired from undergraduate teaching in 1962, the course was no longer given...
Currently, Winthrop House is offering Soc Sci 9, a course on U.S. government and politics, and its own Hum 10. The original House course, Nat Sci 1, taught by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, is not being offered this year...
...Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" reverberated through Burr B yesterday as Nat Sci 5 students bade bon-voyage to George Wald, professor of Biology...
...reign, but not its effect. He says that his present deep interest in the study of war springs from "that long, long night-mare from which one never knew if one was to emerge alive." For the past five years, he has taught a course on war, now Soc Sci 112, and ultimately he plans to write a book which will develop his lecture ideas more fully. Next year he will publish a study of American foreign policy, dwelling on its relations...
Biologist Wald, 60, whose abilities as a lecturer in Harvard's "Nat Sci 5" have made him one of the great college teachers in the U.S. (TIME cover, May 6, 1966), has been primarily concerned with the eye's chemical makeup and reactions. Pursuing a "hunch" in the early 1930s, he discovered the presence of vitamin A in the retina, then went on to determine its presence and complex workings in the visual pigment. Now, he says with undiminished excitement, "we're on the edge of a whole series of new things" in knowledge...