Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard has long forgotten how to teach fundamentals of loyalty and construction but leans to Social give-me's continually seeking loop-holes for its excuses for the tearing down of great ideals...
Sprague will do this for two reasons. First, he has had only two days to teach his offense to members of the Kirkland, Dudley and Lowell. A smooth running offense, he feels, would be superior to a more powerful but ragged combined attack. In this game of two platoon football, Sprague will use representatives of the other Houses on defense...
...mathematicians and humanists mix well. Marston Morse, mathematician and a resident tutor at Eliot House until 1935, compared the collaboration favorably with that at Harvard. "Scientists and classicist mingle more here than we did in Cambridge," he said. "The ideal of the Institute is that scholars meet and teach each other on a plane of equality...
...sheer physical isolation of the Graduate College. Otherwise, they are "one single educational community of scholars, masters and disciples." None of the four graduate schools have a separate faculty as do the graduate schools at Harvard. Every member of the University faculty spends the large part of his time teaching in the college. "Some people look down their noses at undergraduate courses, but not at Princeton. It's a real distinction to teach the undergraduate here," Taylor says...
...painting, abstract photographic experiments seem destined not to replace realism, but to teach it new tricks. One of the paradoxes of photography is the fact that never does life seem more unreal than when the realistic camera comes closest to it: when Harold Edgerton photographed a drop of milk falling into a saucer, it came out looking like a crown, and when Edward Weston shot the heart of an artichoke, it looked like a modernistic abstraction...