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...twice a week rehabilitating one patient at the Waltham Hospital under the supervision of a trained social worker. Seminar discussions, assigned reading and research would then relate the patient's own problems to broader psychological theory. For the first time, students would have concrete "field experience" to supplement their text-book psychology. At the same time, they would meet with psychiatrists and observe the mental hospital in action...
Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe, yesterday announced the appointment of Dudley Meek as director of Radcliffe's Management Training Program. Meek, who was previously vice-president and treasurer of the text-book department of Harcourt, Brace and Company, will also be a member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He succeeds T. North Whitehead, who will retire in June...
Guerard also rejected what he called the "ruthlessly psychoanalytic" novel as being as bad as all didactic novels. Such novelists substitute text-book situations for real creativity, he explained, letting psychological theorists such as Carl Jung think for them...
Because of Wriston's notion that any text-book is a poor book, the courses choose some classic work as their central theme. For example, Darwin's Origin of Species is taken as the central book in a natural sciences IC course. After becoming thoroughly acquainted with it, students are encouraged to explore, through additional reading and discussion, its effects on nations, religions, and individuals. Each professor designs his own course, for Wriston insists that for the teacher to interest and excite his students, he must himself be interested and excited...
Although the Coop text-book annex offers much more of an invitation to the would-be thief, elaborate precautionary methods have kept losses there to approximately the same as in years past...