Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Putting the single wing into Harvard football has been comparatively easy, at least as far as Nelson's department is concerned. "The system's been evolving since 1940, and a lot of boys out west grew up with it; here we had to teach the backs the feeling of the thing more than the actual execution, which came quickly enough...
...there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my taste discern perverse things? . . . Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred...
Sitting & Thinking. The Institute he presides over has neither teachers nor pupils in the ordinary sense; some "faculty members" never teach a class. Says Oppenheimer: "None of the usual apparatus of education will be found at the Institute, nor the people usually regarded as still capable of education." The Institute is perhaps the world's most exclusive school (almost everybody has a Ph.D.), but many of its members would deny that it is a school...
...Institute's director, Oppie still intends to find time to teach and learn. His predecessor's Oxford prints are gone from the director's office; in their place is a wall-length blackboard, covered with equations. And three afternoons a week, out in the new wing, Oppie and 15 young friends can be found talking over elementary-particle physics, explaining things to each other...
...Statue of Liberty, he was wearing the uniform of a prisoner of war. Last week ex-Wehrmacht Lieut. Hallstein was back in the U.S., dressed this time in the neat suit befitting his eminent position as Rector Magnificus (president) of the University of Frankfurt. He had come to teach at Washington's Georgetown University and make a year-long survey of U.S. education. This week Georgetown students heard him describe university life in 1948 Germany, and learned that by comparison U.S. collegians, for all their congested campuses, have it pretty easy...