Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Physics Department called for volunteers to teach Army and Navy students. This seemed his chance to gain experience in more rigorous sciences. Goodwin's background was weak--he had never had any physics or math--so he took a six-weeks refresher course before he got the job (he decided against teaching math; he didn't think he could get away with it). "It was nerve-wracking. I was one jump ahead of the class--good thing they didn't know it." He studied Physics A, while he taught Physics B. After awhile he was promoted to teach Physics...
...assistant professor. Anxious to test his new theories on a class, he went before the faculty with an unusual offer: he would teach a course free, if he could choose his own subject. The result, Mathematical Business Cycle Theory, proved a little stiff for undergraduates. Starting the second year, Goodwin found himself facing a class composed entirely of auditors: among them, the world's most famous cycle theorists, Professors Haberler and Schumpeter. "From then on, the sky was the limit: no exams, no marks, it was the most fun I've ever...
...oldest existing corporation in the Western Hemisphere, Harvard University can teach many a sharp financial lesson to managers of industrial pension plans and other big investment funds. With the notable exception of John Hancock,* Harvard treasurers have usually invested the corporation's money wisely. Last week, in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Treasurer Paul Codman Cabot gave the first detailed explanation of the investment philosophy that has helped build Harvard's General Fund (endowment) to more than $250 million, biggest university fund...
...give a hang about social betterment. In the last analysis, what he wants is a ministry of conviction and spiritual comfort." Renfer felt that, at fundamentalist Dallas, most of his young theologians hardly needed to be told that. But he thought there ought to be a special course "to teach them a new way to use a tool they already have or should have." He started what is considered the first specific course in chaplaincy training to be offered in a seminary...
Most of the undergraduate courses in the program will be given, at M.I.T., although students will be allowed to begin studying at the Harvard School of Education in their third year. During the fifth year students will teach part time at local high schools under the direction of the School of Education...