Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, those mathematical works that do find their way into discussions in or out of the classroom are being accepted too uncritically. The massive reevaluative scholarship on slavery, summarized in Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel (who will teach at Harvard beginning next year) and Stanley Engerman, is now the single best-known work of quantitative history. The book is published in two volumes--the first presents the conclusions, while the second, more technical volume explains how the authors got there. Much of the second volume cannot be understood without advanced...
...walls of Castle Adamant--which serves as the university's campus. The three are, of course, openly scornful of the whole idea. Florian seems to speak for Gilbert when he says. "A woman's college! Maddest folly going! What can girls learn within its walls worth knowing?...I'll teach them twice as much in half an hour outside...
Northrop Frye tells a good story about how he came to teach the Bible. When he was still a junior instructor at Toronto University he talked to the chairman of his department, complaining that he wasn't able to teach his students Milton's Paradise Lost. The students weren't receptive. And he suggested teaching them the Bible instead. The chairman asked Frye how he could possibly teach students the Bible if they didn't know the difference between pharisees and philistines. Frye replied that it probably didn't make any difference considering the society they were going into...
...record is not flamboyant, but it is impressive. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, he rose to become chief of the securities-fraud unit. He brought about 25 cases to court and lost only three. Tuerkheimer took three years off to teach law at the University of Wisconsin, then sent a resume to the Watergate special prosecutor. He was quickly snapped up and assigned 15 months ago to the "milk fund" investigation. His skilled performance led to his selection for the Connally trial...
...most popular courses is "The Self-Confident Home Mechanic," designed to teach students how to repair light switches, calk pipes and fix appliances. One student, Blossom Gottlieb, 26, is taking the course so she and her husband can renovate their hot-dog stand in the seashore community of Cape May, N.J. Her mother-in-law Virginia, 60, is also enrolled because she rents out two summer cottages there. "It's impossible to get a plumber on July 4," she explains, "and the toilets are always stopped up on holidays." Another student, Pat Ortiz, enrolled because she has knocked seven...