Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cumbersome & Slow. In his life, Louis Braille won little acclaim. He was just another blind man, and in those days few people bothered much about the blind. Only one school - the Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris-was making any notable attempt at all to teach the blind to read. But even its method (big letters embossed on paper) was hopelessly cumbersome and slow...
...Colombia schools, Roman Catholic teachers now teach children a 20-stanza song called El Protestantismo. Sample...
...year he had allotted himself, Lennie was able to devote only about two months to composition. He left his composing hideaway in Mexico to rush to Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's deathbed last summer, then agreed to conduct at Tanglewood and teach in Koussevitzky's place at the Berkshire Music Center. Lennie also substituted for Charles Munch as conductor of the Boston Symphony when Munch fell ill last winter. And he accepted a new double assignment: professor of music and director of the school of creative arts at Brandeis...
Eventually, the ethnologists hope either to teach Spanish to the jungle boys or to learn the Motilon language. Then they will try to find out from the boys why their people wage continual war against all outsiders. The cause may prove to be something that fair treatment will eliminate. By the end of this year, they hope, they can take their young interpreters, friends by that time, into Motilon territory and convince the rest of the Indians that war is no longer necessary...
Heading the eight is Heinrich Bruning Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Government. Chancellor of Germany from 193 to 1932, Bruning came to Harvard in 1937 He now plans to teach in Germany, a the University of Cologne...