Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rockefeller's technicians are out to sell their skilled services and teach Brazilians U.S. know-how. They like to point out that, however small its beginnings, their operation dovetails perfectly with President Dutra's giant five-year plan for national development. Says one: "What we are trying to do is to encourage the investment of Brazilian capital in companies that not only will show a profit but will assist in the economic and social development of Brazil...
...tour in the U.S. and Canada. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., "Archie" McIndoe, a modest, broad-backed man of 48, will address an alumni association filled with old classmates and students. (He went to Mayo from New Zealand on a fellowship in 1924 and stayed on to teach...
French ballet glowed dimly under Napoleon, who wasn't much interested (although he took a troupe with him to Egypt). But when Czar Paul asked for a ballet master to teach his gawky but willing subjects, Paris taught St. Petersburg to shine. Now, in its "old age," Paris' Opera Ballet is supported by the French state. Youngsters-ules petits rats de I'Opéra Ballet"-are wards of the government, get their elementary schooling with their pirouettes. Before the company goes back to start its packed performances at home next month, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond...
...last month the argument went on. Readers argued about Ayer and surrealism, Ayer and mathematics, Ayer and the greenness of grass. One philosopher who paid little heed was Freddie Ayer himself. Last week, far from Oxford and the New Statesman, he was in the U.S., getting ready to teach courses at New York University...
...guidance, especially during freshman year. What they find, too often, is a drab and rigid schedule, overcrowded classes, comparatively inexperienced and uninspiring teachers-for "in a curious way a tradition seems to have grown up that it is somewhat beneath the dignity of a full professor to stoop to teach freshmen." A further discouragement: "In some institutions it is the practice to do a big weeding-out job at the end of the first semester ... If the time spent in building up a case against a new man were spent in trying to find out how to make him work...