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...Samuel Phillips, a 26-year-old gunpowder manufacturer concerned about the "decay of virtue, public and private," began a school with a noble idea: to teach ''the great end and real business of living." The school itself was more humble: 13 students, ages six to 30, enrolled under the tutelage of Calvinist Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson in a converted carpenter's shop in Andover, Mass. "On Monday the scholars recite what they can remember of the sermons heard on the Lord's day previous," wrote Pearson in 1780. "On Saturday the bills are paid and the punishments...
Anna Clark '78, who has worked with the student Committee on Women's Studies, said yesterday the most important step the University must take is hiring professors to teach women's studies, adding that she doubts departments will be eager to make such appointments...
Consequently, if man is to survive on this planet it will be necessary for him to control his killer instinct and teach his children that "I will not kill...
Next spring, Petric hopes to teach a smaller course in either the evolution of silent cinema, or avant garde cinema. As a result of the combined promises of President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and the Luce Foundation, he hopes to see the Carpenter Center purchase new 35-millimeter equipment, thus enabling the study of the newest films and allowing current filmmakers to introduce their works at Harvard...
Hanify added he also believes "there is no uniform program, with the exception of the Danforth Center, to help teaching fellows teach...