Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan is "Particularly intended to improve the subject-matter competence of teachers of mathematics and science," Edwin C. Kemble, Director of the Academic Year Institute, explained yesterday. The Institute, along with the Graduate School of Education, operates the program...
...last summer George Wolfe and his wife sat down for a serious talk in their home in the suburbs of Lewiston, Idaho (pop. 15,000). Subject: the education of their seven children, aged 5 to 14. The Wolfes were worried: it was bad enough that daughter Sharon (12), when asked to name the continent she lived on, replied that she did not even know what a continent was; the rest of the children were not making much progress either. Besides, the Wolfes were concerned that most parents in their neighborhood seemed to be losing control over their children. "Take...
...Worst of all, Dr. Rising warns, a doctor treating a woman during pregnancy with anesthetics, X rays, ACTH or cortisone-type hormones, may subject the fetus to oxygen shortage or some other threat. The result: "Physicians now face the horrible possibility that they, in addition to certain 'acts of God,' are responsible for many developmental defects." He lists babies born with one eye, abnormal hearts, cleft palate or mongolism, and Siamese twins...
...singers, and while for years it attempted more new works than it does today, most of them met with little immediate success. When it launched La Bohème (with Melba) in 1900, Henry Krehbiel, in the New York Tribune, roundly panned the new opera: "[It] is foul in subject, and fulminant but futile in its music...
...experiments are few (one enterprising exception: sending the entire junior class of Oberlin's top-ranked Conservatory of Music to study for a year at Salzburg's Mozarteum). A weakness : an almost interminable list of required courses, which tends to prevent a student from exploring deeply any subject except his major. The faculty is well-paid ($4,700-$12,500), deliberately weighted toward men who are good teachers first, publishing scholars second. The result -in addition to excellent teaching - is that while professors respected in their fields are plentiful, Oberlin has no scholars of towering national reputation...