Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hero!" Into the uproar stepped the President. "Actually, the Japanese courts have been eminently fair," said Dwight Eisenhower at his weekly news conference, "and our legal people have reported that . . . Japanese legal procedures [are] based upon very great concern for the rights of the individual and justice to him. [And] if any possible injustice happened to that man, it would be a case that would be taken up diplomatically, of course...
Indeed, he found that the primary problem at Harvard was that knowledge was treated as something which could be bought and sold, given and received, and that the University thought that by requiring the right courses it could give him the perspective which he lacked upon arrival. The trouble was that he could only listen to what was being said to him on very rare occasions, and predicting these moments was utterly impossible. The courses and the books which suddenly registered and left the deepest imprint on him seemed to be unrelated to the greatness of the subject-matter, author...
...major demands upon the professor came from his students and from his field. This is the classic tension or balance between the teacher and the scholar. Harvard has maintained since 1636 that the best scholar is the best teacher. Harvard was founded "to advance learning and perpetutate it to posterity...
...demands placed upon the teaching fellow and upon the professor by the student will, in all likelihood, grow heavier in the next few years. As the level of undergraduate intelligence rises the demand for a deep and more creative teacher will grow stronger. That the level of intelligence is rising is obvious--the class of '56 scored a median of 583 on its Standard Achievement Tests while the median for the class...
Such minds have demanded more of their professors in terms of time and quality. An increasing amount of attention has been focused upon the means of communication between the student and the professor; the most obvious and most criticized being the lecture system...