Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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School Administrator Ernest J. Claverly, warming in defense of the non-cursive status quo, cited no less than ten reasons why printing was superior to handwriting for schoolchildren: "It takes less time to teach. It fosters skill in language by allowing easier language expression. It is more legible, and does not become sloppy as the writer becomes senile. It is less awkward for left-handed children. Most job application forms, in fact, say "please print clearly." Claverly maintained that unless some schools had been willing to violate tradition, the tyrannical master would still be holding forth in his red brick...
Jordan did not accept immediately. He had always loved teaching, and feared that an administrative post would leave him no time to teach. But almost simultaneously, he was made a professor of History at Harvard, with the agreement that he could teach and still have time to tend to Radcliffe. He accepted, wound up his Chicago affairs, and was inaugurated in October of 1943. He still teaches one course each year and gives a graduate seminar in the Tudor and Stuart periods of English history...
Winky Dink and You (Sat. 11 a.m., CBS-TV) is a children's show that will cost many a parent half a dollar. The program proposes to teach "creative drawing and self-expression" to moppets. It shows simplified sketches of steamboats, locomotives, etc. on the screen while the young artists-or at least those who have sent in for the 50? Winky Dink Magic TV Kit-make copies and add their own embellishments. The Magic Kit contains a transparent plastic window that sticks to the TV screen, a set of special crayons and a flannel erasing cloth. Parents...
Referring to members of the University faculty who have invoked the Amendment, Sears said, "If I were President Pusey, I wouldn't have them around. Nobody can tell a college who can teach there or who cannot, but we can have our ideas about a college which keeps on such...
...stop something like this entirely, what with the president and a hand-picked committee behind it, would require a concerted opposition uncommon in academic circles. Eventually some form of it will probably go through. Fortunately, however, no gadget can stand in the way of a man determined to teach...