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...Yankee must lead America on a wise course if the Yankee is to prosper," Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, said yesterday, when he addressed a conference of Y. M. C. A. leaders at Springfield...
...mere fact that the over-popularizing of a subject results in a wide detour from scientific truth is not the most harmful effect of teaching which aims primarily to please the student, declared Zimmerman. The degeneration of instruction into a popularity contest strikes a fatal blow at scientific treatment of a subject, based on historical perspective...
...specific attack was made by Zimmerman upon the manner in which "marriage" courses are taught in general. The tendency to popularize, rather than to "stick to the scientific truths" of the matter has made most courses in marriage useless, he asserted...
Recent controversies over permanent appointments at Harvard, largely based on personal issues, and the tendency for interested students to participate in the debate over appointments recalls Zimmerman's statement on the dangers of popularity to a balanced set of teaching standards...
...obvious, says Zimmerman, that the professional, scientific approach to a subject will prove less appealing to students than the highly-colored presentation of the grandstander. His statement implies that teaching popularity can quite easily become damaging to scientific integrity if allowed to become a predominant criterion of selection for permanent faculty posts...