Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1945 John M. Wolpe, Teaching Fellow in Romance Languages, lay stretched out on an English hospital bed. A hero of the French Underground and the Canadian Army, he had 23 pounds sterling in his pocket and three German machine gun bullets in this high. If it had not been for the bullets, Wolpe would have gone back to his old job as a longshoreman on the docks of Antwerp. Instead four years later he came to teach at Harvard...
Wolpe plans to leave the University in June when he gets his doctorate. He wants to teach, but doesn't know exactly where. "If everything falls through," he jokes, "I can always go back to the Coca-Cola bottling plant where I've worked for the past two summers. They give me free drinks...
...withdrawal from politics and threats to academic freedom respectively. Both articles contain interesting information, but are not too sharp on analysis. Professor William T. LaPrade's article on hysteria--the political, not the psychological, kind--reiterates the stand of the American Association of University Professors on the right to teach, but does not contain much new material...
...McCarthy-Dorgan bill to outlaw the Party came up first in a hectic March 14 hearing before the Committee on Constitutional Law. Dorgan accused President Conant of refusing "to remove Communists from his teaching staff," and mentioned Harlow Chapley, Professor of Astronomy, as unfit to teach because of alleged Communist affiliations ("alleged" referring to Senator McCarthy's charges against Shapley.) Representative Meyer Peterson sounded the keynote: "What is the Supreme Court worry about the constitutionality of this bill? It's about time we took some positive action...
...London. Berkhamsted's chief distinction, then as now, was the unstylish but solid boys' public school which bears the' name of the town. Graham's father, Charles Henry Greene, had left Oxford in the 80s intending to be a lawyer. He came to Berkhamsted to teach for one term, and stayed at the school 38 years, the last 17 as headmaster. All six Greene children were born in Berkhamsted; Graham was the fourth. He hated the town, but not as much as he hated the school, with its harsh stone steps, its plain pine desks...