Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American tendency toward extravagance has entered medical education, even as elsewhere. There are too many courses, overlapping and duplicating one another. Departments are too often autonomous in fixing what and how much to teach...
...Friday afternoon last October, Fay, then 74 years old and retired four years, was asked by a Corporation member to teach History 132 again. Fay answered that he would be delighted to do so, and at 9 a.m. the next Monday, he began to lecture where he had left off years before...
...certain cases, however, the Corporation asks a faculty member to teach until he is 70 years old. In emergencies, such men as Fay, Julian L. Coolidge '95. professor of Mathematics, University Professor Roscoe Pound, and the late Alfred North Whitehead have been asked to teach even beyond...
Coolidge, who is the former master of Lowell House, came back during the war to teach freshman Mathematics for several years. Since his retirement in 1940, he has also written several mathematical treatises, "The History of Conic Sections" and "The Mathematics of Great Amateurs," which deals with the achievements of men who were famous in another field and only debbied in math as a pastime...
During the war the Society was reduced to a group of less than ten, and all its leisure and ease stripped from it. The Navy was in Eliot House, and many of the Fellows had to teach...