Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue-eyed Suzanne, a whirlwind of a woman at 41, finds time to teach a children's class at the Juilliard School of Music and another class for elementary-school teachers at City College. She keeps house for her husband Paul Smith, head of Columbia University's mathematics department (and recorder virtuoso in Suzanne's ensemble). And she raises her two sons. Says Suzanne: "It keeps me normal...
Suzanne learned to love medieval music as a child. Her famous father used to teach a choral group in lower Manhattan, take Suzanne along to substitute for missing singers. When she went to Germany in 1928 for more study, she visited family friend Physicist Albert Einstein, decided, after hearing Einstein's stepdaughter Margot play the lute, that that...
Professor Clyde K. Kluckhohn will take over Anthropology 1b, and Associate Professor Fred C. Whipple will teach Astronomy 1. Professor L. Don Leet will give the first term of Geology 1, replacing Professor Kirtley F. Mather...
Previously in the meeting, the ADA adopted a policy of complete academic freedom for teachers. This question was also supported by the HLU. "Should communists be allowed to teach?" was the basic problem, and when the policy was finally set it averred that teachers should be judged solely on academic ability, that they should be completely free in other connections, and that they should bear no guilt through their associations...
Without regard to nationality or political belief, preference in student selection is given to those who plan to teach or enter public life, in order to spread the influence of the Seminar as widely as possible. Application are screened by European student organizations and teachers, and final choice is made after an interview with the Executive Director, Professor John Finch of Dartmouth. All students attend the Seminar without cast to themselves, and where necessary they have their travelling expenses paid...