Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than preliminary training in physics and engineering before becoming eligible for the draft. Many of them have seen their wartime places as radio operators, technicians, mechanics, too late. Yet with basic, elementary instruction they can qualify as specialists in communication and repair. No amount of theoretical physics can teach these men their skills now; what they need are practical courses in the operation of tools and machinery, or in the transmission of Morse code and in the fundamentals of communication apparatus...
...course by asking 45 businessmen and scholars: "If you were to go back to college and take one history course, what would you want included in it?" He got a spate of suggestions that made eminently good sense but were so sweeping that no one teacher or textbook could teach the course. So Professor Byrne organized a battery of five history experts to help him give the course. It had a successful trial at Barnard last summer, may soon be paralleled in other colleges...
...demonstration is to be supervised by Clarence Walton, ARP course director, and will be part of the regular program of the series. The purpose of the show will be to give the new wardens actual experience with the real bombs, and to teach them the proper and safe ways to handle incendiaries...
...first warm-up exercises (to teach initiative and coordination), units lost contact so badly that Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, Chief Umpire, cracked: "It would have cost $10 to send a postcard from one unit to the other end." But the troops had plenty of initiative and their infiltration tactics would have dizzied a Jap: one small contingent got "shot" by its own side's machine guns...
Among the men appointed are two from South America, Armando Dugand, and Raymon Ferreyra. Both will work at the Arnold Arboretum. Other appointees are Richard P. Scowcroft, A.M. Harvard '41, John F. Leisher, A.M. Harvard '42, who will be teaching fellows in English, Andreas G. Papandreou, of Athens, Greece, and John A. Stovel, of Canada, both of whom will teach economics, and Daniel L. Horowitz, who will serve as lecturer on Industrial Relations...