Word: wald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hates to distinguish between teaching and research and thinks the presence of senior and junior-league faculties horribly demoralizing to a university. Unfortunately it does not wholeheartedly believe in General Education either, which is why it continues to count on the sudden and miraculous decisions of men like George Wald to teach in the program. To many senior men on the Faculty Gen Ed seems the province of sentimentalists sacrificing valuable scholarly time; to many teaching fellows a jumble of needlessly time-consuming, oversectioned, tedious courses; to many undergraduates a confusing and haphazard attempt to impose stray bits of knowledge...
Other courses in the top ten are Math 20a, Nat Sci 5, George Wald's popular offering, and Soc Sci 6, a new-comer to the list. Among the elementary language courses German A ranked first with 220 students, followed by French A with...
Died. Jerry Wald, 49, chunky, eclectic moviemaker whose perpetual motion picturing made him one of Hollywood's most prolific producers (The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place, From Here to Eternity); whose detractors claimed he was the prototype for the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run?, left a vice-presidency at Columbia Pictures in 1956 to form his own company, had as many as 24 films before the cameras at the same time, once remarking, "If I were a multimillionaire, I'd pick this business as a hobby...
STEPHEN L. WALD Boston...
...rationale for Natural Sciences 5 and Natural Sciences 10, which double as first courses in geology and biology, respectively, is that the needs of concentrators and non-concentrators are identical here. George Wald, professor of Biology, maintains that biology in a General Education context is the best possible introduction to the subject. The course takes up a study of complex organisms only after following the evolutionary development of progressively higher forms of living and intent matter from the fundamental particles. Wald's conclusion is not that this approach has something for everyone, but the best for everyone. His belief derives...