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...past two years, the only two English professors who focus on the colonial period--Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert '49 and Carswell Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch--have taken leaves of absence for medical reasons, leaving their courses untaught and students scrambling...
Most undergraduate sections at the school went untaught yesterday, according to Phil M. Cox, a spokesperson for the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), which represents the graduate student teaching assistants. In addition, many of the University's buildings were picketed, said Lenson, president of the college's faculty union...
...past two years, American women's history has gone completely untaught at Harvard, as the History Department simply neglected--or refused?--to fill a vacancy created when they did not promote Catherine Clinton to the rank of associate professor...
...make muskets. Whitney established the American vernacular: economy, simplicity and flexibility, which, in industrial terms, were translated as quantity, standardization and interchangeability of parts. Watching clumsy workmen fumble the parts of the cotton gin, which he invented, Whitney realized that he had to put his own skill into every untaught hand, and to do this he had "to substitute correct and effective operations of machinery for that skill of the artist which is acquired only by long practice and experience." In that single principle, Whitney created the largest single segment of industrial civilization-the semiskilled worker...
...criminality) and education. I know there are a number of extreme opposite examples: Bill Sands, Caryl Chessman (both of whom I represented) and others who had high IQs and became criminals. But the usual criminal is part of an ethnic minority, economically distressed and uneducated, or, if you will, untaught how to tell right from wrong...