Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Each One Teach One. The UNESCO majority, led by the U.S., got action on one point. They were determined not to re-elect Dr. Huxley to his $15,000-a-year job. To replace him for a six-year term they chose, by a vote of 30 to 3, 46-year-old Jaime Torres Bodet, Foreign Minister of Mexico. Energetic, curly-topped Torres Bodet, who speaks French, English and Spanish with equal ease, is a poet who published his first works 'at the age of 16, but is no idle dreamer...
...know who is "American" and who is not. One newspaper in Oklahoma stated, "Time was when Harvard was American." This means, of course, that Newman's position is "un-American." It also means that making a man swear fealty to a particular economic belief in order that he may teach, making him broadcast his private political fancies before his professional competence may be proved, is "American...
...course. As far as fixing up English. A goes, they probably will have been wasting their time. For it will take more than the simple remake of a now-aging textbook to patch up the defects of the College's largest course, already far too unwieldly to teach anything past a few required fundamentals...
Theodore Morrison, now heading English A, has run up against the placement idea before. He rejected it because of the "unfairness" in making section men teach class of inferior students, and in addition felt a "general hunch" that the whole thing would not work. Neither argument is particularly valid. Instructors in French and Spanish teach ability-grouped students all the way up from the "inferior" level; everybody seems quite happy about it. And it is somewhat silly to retain the present system on what Morrison admits is "just the simple feeling that a placement won't be any good." Instead...
...marched 59 yards down field to score. But after that the Bears began to play like cubs. They got fumbleitis: the ball squirted out of their hands five times. California was lucky to win, 7-6. Reminded of his one-point quip, Coach Waldorf mumbled: "This ought to teach me to keep my big mouth shut...