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Nelles will teach "Introduction to Canadian History" and "Canadian Social History" next year, and will also serve as co-chairman of a University Consortium seminar on Canadian-U.S. relations...
...Vivian Nelles, a professor of Canadian history at Toronto's York University, will come to Harvard this fall as visiting King Professor of Canadian Studies, and will teach the first Canadian history course offered at Harvard in ten years...
Wolf said that while there are no specific plans for the proposed curriculum, it would deal with teaching children to analyze news and scientific information, discussions on morality, the history of past wars, and weapons development. She said the curriculum would be to teach students "to understand and analyze...
...willing to pay $10,000 a year to be instructed in subjects on which their teachers are no better informed than they. It was the conviction of all western and non-western historians in the Department that the best solution was to have those knowledgeable in these areas teach them--hence, the half-course requirement in a non-western field...
...generally agree that the Reagan defense buildup should not necessarily cause more inflation. Says Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution: "Defense spending does not automatically add to inflationary pressures. Buying a weapons system is not economically different from buying a dam or paying somebody to teach on an Indian reservation." But after the Viet Nam experience, skeptics will be watching closely for any signs of added inflation from the new military buildup. -By Alexander Taylor...