Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...removing enrollment limits will not by itself eliminate overcrowding in the courses involved. There remains the problem of providing additional section men to teach the additional students. Section men are regularly hired in the spring, however, whereas students show up for their courses in the fall, and it is usually impossible to know beforehand just which courses are going to need extra instructors. The General Education officials can solve this problem by the extension of an idea that is already being used by Social Sciences 1, 2 and 6. These, three courses, whose contents are more or less similar, have...
President Wilbur K. Jordan last night gave the first in a series of Monday evening lectures offered again this year by Radcliffe to Harvard and Radcliffe graduate students who plan to teach in a college or university...
...master of park and fountain sculpture; in Lidingö, Sweden. Milles studied in Paris for seven years, was assistant to Auguste Rodin, moved on to hew lithe, dreamlike figures often drawn from Norse, Greek and American Indian mythologies (TIME, June 27). In 1929 he came to the U.S. to teach at Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Among his best-known works: Stockholm's Orpheus Fountain; St. Louis' The Meeting of the Waters, 19 life-sized figures symbolizing the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; The Fountain of Faith in Falls Church...
Working under the old educational theory of "let the smarter students help teach the average ones," Jordan has rotated his experienced backs with substitutes all week, sacrificing first-team polish for all-around competence...
...basic training that the staff spends its time: trips through the rope maze to teach clumsy feet how to stop fighting each other, lessons in how to wrap ankles, and running, running, running until the 85 hopefuls are too tired for anything but skull talks. Then back for more lessons: how to cut at right angles, how to pass without knocking down the receiver, and how to center between the legs...