Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starting point for the HDC is was just the middle of a long struggle for G. P. Baker. Baker started teaching at Harvard in 1888 as an instructor in elocution, but gradually became interested in the theater. In the 90's he began teaching courses at both Radcliffe and Harvard in the history of English drama from its birth to the present. This in itself was a considerable innovation, since at the turn of the century academic circles did not think of an author still alive as one who could write "literature." English courses of the day ended abruptly with...
...rule, Francis Keppel '38 holds only on A. B. And although the Education School concentrates on training teachers and administrators for the nation's public schools, Keppel is a prep school graduate who has never take a formal course in education. He probably could not even qualify to teach in a public high school, where a master's degree is a pre-requisite...
According to Moore, the HYRC supported statements made by Pusey and the Corporation on three points on which the other members of the committee would not agree: 1) Communism is ipso facto unfit to teach. 2) A Congressional Committee has the right to investigate an educational institution so long as its investigation is conducted on the principles of justice and consideration for the individual. 3) Anyone who uses the Fifth Amendment to keep from testifying should be carefully scrutinized...
...President Lowell, who was also the director of the Lowell Institute, formed the Commission on Extension Courses, and coordinated the ten forementioned institutions with the Harvard program, offering a wider range of subjects, and both men and women to teach the coeducational courses...
Despite the piddling tuition fee of five dollars per full course, the teaching staff for the Extension courses draws excellent pay due to the ever increasing Trust Fund. As Chairman, Dean Phelps invites competent instructors from each of the cooperating institutions to give a course in their particular field. These appointments are in no way connected with the man's college teaching; it is extra work for extra pay. Usually the Commission hires an lecturer for only one year, but in the case of language speaking courses, the same man may teach for many years...