Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve to 14 hours a day, six days a week, the sergeants drill their charges on the use of such weapons as the M-16 rifle and the M-79 grenade launcher, and teach them how to survive on the battlefield. The recruits "attack" while machine guns are fired over their heads, are ambushed by a tear-gas attack and end up marching 15 miles and bivouacking in the field for a week. The men have to pass a final exam in combat skills. Anyone who flunks twice has to take the entire seven-week course over again...
...Georg Solti is playing my Variations for Orchestra with the Chicago Symphony. He decides to invite me, all expenses paid, to attend the concert. When does the telegram arrive? On the day of the concert. He is in Chicago; I am in New York, with classes to teach. What...
...cultures that previously had been viewed as insignificant were coming into international prominence and previously unknown philosophies and religions were finding acceptance, students found themselves unable to study current intellectual and sociological trends. Yet professors, rather than face the challenge of re-examining their own values in order to teach new ideas, turned back to their specialties. Instead of renovating their courses and re-examining traditional analyses of, for example, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare and Freud, and reinvestigating the basis of civilization and culture when accepted theories were coming under fire, there was a general retreat from the mass of angry, frustrated...
...remained a Lamont University Professor and returned to Harvard this fall. The University professorship entitles Dunlop to teach in any department in the University...
...council also discussed yesterday a proposal to establish a Graduate School of Education program in the College which would allow undergraduates to obtain certification to teach in public schools after graduating from Harvard...