Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hypnopaedia" (sleep-teaching), a less talented novelist wrote a book with a similar idea. It never broke into print: New York publishers thought it too badly written and too fantastic. In the novel, an ambitious man made himself ruler of the world by inventing a "cerebrograph" (mind-writer), which taught people while they slept. Author Max Sherover abandoned the novel, but not the idea...
Harvard's faculty was excellent, and the students were advised to choose their courses by professors as much as by subject matter. William James was an instructor in physiology (NOT psychology), while James Russell Lowell taught English poetry. Informal discussions were initiated in order to bring the students into closer contact wit these figures...
...troublesome, bothersome and unnecessary." U.S. newspapers, he said, showed little interest in the forthcoming Pan-American conference in Bogotá. "I am afraid there will not be a serious plan for economic cooperation presented [there] despite efforts of Colombian representatives [in Washington]. . . . The U.S. has soon forgotten the lesson taught by war-that parnership with the peoples of Latin America is necessary for its security...
...three Negro professional golfers were barred from the $10,000 Richmond "open" golf tournament. The local club was willing to let them play, but the all-powerful Professional Golfers' Association, which all the leading pros belong to, has a "Caucasian clause." The three excluded golfers-Ted Rhodes (who taught Joe Louis how to play), Bill Spiller and Madison Gunter-thereupon sued the P.G.A. and the club...
...Rugby has shattered another tradition, and last week many an old public-school man wondered whether it was one too many. As its new head master, it had picked a man who had never taught a class or preached a sermon. The new head: London Lawyer Sir Arthur Brownlow fforde, 47, wartime under secretary in two British ministries (Supply, Treasury). Hard-pressed Rugby had frankly picked him because it needed someone who knew how to handle money. All week the London Times's letter columns bristled and huffed. Canon Harry Kenneth Luce, head master of Durham School, posed...