Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVERY YEAR the college admissions office sends brochures to applicants declaring "Almost every member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is both a teacher and a scholar and teaches undergraduates as well as graduate students...Most professors are anxious to work with undergraduates; a freshman may well be taught by a Nobel Prize winner or a world-famous scholar." And likewise every year, a starry-eyed freshman class arrives here expecting the College to live up to this bill--that students work with Faculty members as "friends and fellow-scholars...
...mathematics and language courses. They staff the sections of General Education and middle-group courses. And they play such an overwhelming role in the tutorial program that in many departments their numbers violate current Faculty legislation which says 70 per cent of the undergraduates in departmental tutorials must be taught by Faculty members...
...Nostrand's solution is "functional writing," a teaching method that focuses on drilling students in the art of getting a coherent argument down on paper. The method, now taught at Brown and a dozen other campuses, is not designed to produce future Mailers and Bellows but simply to help budding scientists, engineers and business managers learn to use the written word...
...Monologues. Van Nostrand believes that good writing is all in the approach. Students turn out tortuous prose when they treat writing as a monologue. In functional writing, they are taught to view it as a dialogue with readers. Says Van Nostrand: "It is easier to organize your information for someone else than for yourself." In a typical course, 15 to 30 students meet with an instructor twice a week for 90-minute sessions. The core of the program is a 331-page workbook outlining a series of laborious drills that break the writing process into simple steps...
...working. "After grammar school in Wisconsin's 'Sawdust City,' " he recalled, "my education was transferred to the manual side of factory, store and bank. Here I lived behind the scenes in the life of the worker." But in 1901 he moved to New York and taught photography-the rudiments of the craft-to students at a progressive academy called the Ethical Culture School, and there the first of Hine's great subjects appeared to him: Ellis Island. Over a period of five years, 1904 to '09, Hine would take the ferry out to the cavernous...