Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students increased their reading speed from 230 to 450 words per minute over a two month period, under the direction of Irving H. Anderson, instructor in Education, and Walter F. Dearborn, professor of Education...
Eldon A. Bond, instructor in Education, has been appointed to aid Dearborn with the class this year in the absence of Anderson who is now in Michigan. There are two mediums used in the experiment: motion pictures and regular reading tests...
...last few years, loud have been the critics-both faculty and student-about the way Dr. Conant handles men. One after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed...
...thirty-nine years ago when an instructor named Mr. Coolidge took his place in the Harvard mathematics department. 'Gradually the influence of his personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part...
...letter to a University official Fletcher Briggs announced that he was taking a "vacation" in Cambridge and would do no tutoring for the present. Briggs was formerly a Harvard instructor in German and has been tutoring privately for the past eleven years...