Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact of the matter is that both the strange and ancient names are as familiar to corn-fed Ike Eisenhower as Wichita and John Brown. To the student of military history that he is, Hannibal is an open textbook. To Lieut. General Eisenhower, who for months had been poring over maps, even Tizi-Ouzou is well known...
...course by asking 45 businessmen and scholars: "If you were to go back to college and take one history course, what would you want included in it?" He got a spate of suggestions that made eminently good sense but were so sweeping that no one teacher or textbook could teach the course. So Professor Byrne organized a battery of five history experts to help him give the course. It had a successful trial at Barnard last summer, may soon be paralleled in other colleges...
...case method of business study has been refined over the past thirty years until it has become a more effective teaching tool than the textbook. A good case combines the suspense of a Hitchcock movie with the pedagogy of Socrates. Teachers no longer labor to illustrate theories with "I knew a guy. . ." stories. In the case system, the illustration is primary, but the principle emerges as the actual situation is discussed. Collection and editing of good cases is, obviously, a difficult...
...Widener last Saturday there were only ten copies of Stevenson, History I textbook, and about twenty men asked for each copy. Already a load of extra chairs have been dumped into the reading room and they are filled till ten o'clock every night. These facts seem to be clear enough indication that rush is on. Not only will 1200 odd History, Government, and Economics readers continue to swell the crowd flocking through the white pillars, but with the Union Library locked up they will be joined by hundreds of other Freshmen. The House libraries, primarly intended for tutorial...
...wide knowledge and experience of a journalist who for years was head of the chemistry and physics departments at one of the best known State universities in the country-who was Director of Science and Education at the World's Fair-who edited a famous six-volume textbook series on the sciences...