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...another new, upper-level Hum course, Herbert Dieckmann, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, will give Hum 135, The Age of Enlightenment, in the spring of next year...
...what, in outline, they had to say. Such a course would not only deepen students' understanding of the text, but would enable them to choose with some degree of understanding which authors they wished to study most intensely. Perhaps a course of this nature could be given as an upper-level social sciences course, open to freshmen considering concentration in classics. As evidenced by the success of similar courses at Yale and Princeton, the course would probably have a wide general appeal...
Basic Skills. For upper-level retarded children (with IQs from 51 to 80) who have no emotional or physical disabilities, the public schools in many cities now provide special classes. There the slow learners acquire such basic skills as reading, arithmetic, telling time, using the telephone, handling money. With patient training, most of these youngsters may eventually find jobs. Some schools teach their girl students how to put on lipstick and dress attractively; boys learn how to call a girl for a date, and small groups, after careful instruction, venture out to dine in restaurants. For the "trainables," with...
...Senator W. Kerr (pronounced car) Scott, 60, is a Democrat of the hardfisted, harsh-tongued, Harry Truman school (in 1951, then-Governor Scott announced that his three top choices for President were "Harry S. Truman, Harry Truman and Truman"). As such, he never much cottoned to the low-key, upper-level sort of Democratic leadership typified by Adlai Stevenson. And when Republican Dwight Eisenhower this year came within 15,487 votes of carrying Democratic North Carolina, Kerr Scott thought he knew...
...principle of paper-writing is certainly recognised in the lower-level General Education courses, which in their attempt to bestir sluggard minds, usually require at least four papers apiece. Instructors of departmental and upper-level General Education courses, however, often require no more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question...