Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time Hastie announced that PBH is sending volunteers to work in the State Prison in Charlestown and in the Women's Reformatory at Framingham. At the prison, the students will do individual tutorial work while at Framingham the volunteers will teach classes. The new program is headed by James H. Durand...
...much on their bills. Citing the fact that some students wire their phones so that message units are charged to other numbers, she commented, "It's not the phone company's fault we can't trace these people. It's the fault of the professors. They ought to teach you boys some morals. Harvard ought to patrol your rooms in order to make sure you aren't making calls on other people's numbers...
...relation to the University intellectually. Many have advocated that religion, an unscientific--often superstitious institution which has divided the nation into sects, and has as often done harm as good has no place in academic life. They have charged that its sectarianism and the personal commitment of those who teach it would tend to violate the very principles of academic freedom and inquiry on which the University stakes so much importance. No matter where religion would be taught, it would tend to force itself upon students...
Section instruction in all six courses should receive particular attention. Teaching fellows are ordinarily graduate students in science, unfamiliar with the methods of explaining their field on its simplest level. Problem solving, the terror of most students, yet vital for an understanding of fundamental principles is especially hard to teach. Graduate students in the School of Education who are preparing for a career in science teaching would be better suited to conduct sections...
...Perry Smith has ruled over his 290 students and eight buildings with a genial but unchallenged authority. A big (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered man, he started each day by shaking hands with every child in the lower school-partly to put them at ease and partly to teach them good manners. He played the double bass in the school orchestra, gave a course in Shakespeare, taught an amiable sort of social philosophy under the title "Social Standards" (alias "S.S." or "Snappy Stories"). Though North Country Day goes in heavily for art, music and dramatics ("The avenues...