Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trimester plan [March 11] may lead colleges to financial brinksmanship; this is for trustees to decide. What is more definite is that the system verges on academic bankruptcy. Students have no time to acquire perspective; they obtain a veneer of knowledge. The faculty suffers equally. An instructor may teach twelve courses in a calendar year on up to nine topics; he could not possibly do the reading required for top performance. One week between terms is grossly insufficient for "catching up." As for research, publication or public service, when would there be time...
...other colleges," but it's Theodore Roosevelt sizing up the Ivy League. Therefore, the book, a real cocktail party conversation piece, will end up on innumerable coffee tables. But it should be kept within the family. The outside world should never find out that Harvard College didn't teach its distinguished graduates everything they know. The Advocate Centennial Anthology ought only to be sold sub rosa during Commencement Week...
...performance. And they called for the creation of more effective machinery to transmit criticism from students to administrators and Department chairmen. They even suggested the establishment of "ad hoc courses"--seminars on topics such as Vietnam, which would be determined at the beginning of each term--to build the teach-in into the normal curriculum...
...compares his new post to that of a clinical professor in the Med School. He will teach education theory in the classroom while continuing his work in the field...
Still, birth control is being studies in detail in both its ethical and biological aspects, by other members of the Center. Assistant professors Ralph B. Potter and Arthur J. Dyck, both of the Divinity School, teach and do research on the relationship between ethics and population control. Dyck justifies the inclusion of ethics in population studies by pointing out that the real problem in controlling birth rates is not the acceptance of birth control techniques. This often results only in a more even spacing out of a large family, he explained. The real variable is whether people want a large...