Word: teachings
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When President Conant returns from his speaking four he will begin to teach a new course, Philosophy 150, dealing with a philosophy of modern scientific development...
...American life, says Mrs. Schumacher, since it gives the student the cultural education which family life in this country too seldom offers. "The American father is under a terrific strain to keep up with the high standard of living. Fathers here work too hard. They haven't time to teach their children, to show them a book of Conama paintings, as ps outs can in the more leisurely life of Eu ope. The college here must waken up the student to the basic appreciation of arts which make for greater enjoyment in life...
...only speaks to freshmen on all occasions--formal and informal--but three years ago he hurried next door from his Massachusetts Hall office to Straus Hall to take tea with an intrepid group of first-year men. He is also the first president in over 100 years to teach an undergraduate course at the same time he held the presidency...
...thrill of taking a course with President Conant is worth the fatigue of a nine o'clock class, all they need is a smattering of philosophy and science and a little luck to be one of the fifty students in Philosophy 150. In it, President Conant will teach the dynamic conception of science as expounded in his recent book, Science and Common Sense...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, (above) associate professor of History, has taken a leave of absence to work on Gov. Adlai Stevenson's personal campaign staff. Schlesinger's course in American intellectual history, History 169, will be omitted this fall. He will teach the spring half of the course if he returns after the election...