Word: teachers
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...medicine's standard texts: Cecil & Loeb's Textbook of Medicine. The association was a fortunate one for Laragh. "Loeb was a despot, but a benevolent one," Laragh recalls. "He was fair but demanding, and his standards were the highest." Loeb was also a first-rate teacher who did not believe in spoiling his pupils by assigning laboratory technicians to help them. "I had to do every experiment myself," says Laragh. "But it was worth it. I really learned about research...
...traditional slide rules a few years ago. A few school systems, however, have begun to supply and use calculators in an organized way. Three junior highs and one elementary school in Cupertino, Calif., have been using 15 calculators as standard equipment in math classes since September. In Math Teacher Barbara Good-son's classes, pupils share the devices on regular assignments during one or two periods a week. Says Goodson: "Kids who weren't all that eager to come to math class now ask, 'Is this the computer...
...Teacher's Insurance Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equity Fund, two organizations that handle retirement and insurance benefits for academics...
John B. Butler, director of personnel, said in an interview last week: "The primary responsibility of Harvard is education and research. If you go back to the earliest definition the primary thing is teacher and student. That's ideal or something. But you can't do that. Our goal is to have quality education at minimum expense...
...LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS EAKINS by Gordon Hendricks. 367 pages. Grossman. $45. A graceful and sympathetic, if somewhat languid biography of the famous Philadelphia artist, individualist, teacher (1844-1916). There is some interesting new material including excerpts from Eakins' own remarkably direct and often charming letters and from contemporary newspaper clippings...