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Then, on April 17, three days after the Soldiers Field meeting, the Faculty resolved that any Harvard ROTC unit should be no more than an ordinary extracurricular activity "with no special privileges or facilities granted either by contract or informal agreement." The Bruner Resolution, adopted by a 385-25 margin, provided that "existing contracts inconsistent with-this principle be terminated as soon as legally possible and that scholarship funds be provided where need is created by this decision...
Then, on April 17, the Faculty esolved that any Harvard ROTC unit should be no more than an ordinary extracurricular activity "with no special privileges or facilities granted either by contract or informal agreement." The Bruner Resolution, adopted by a 385-25 margin, provided that "existing contracts inconsistent with this principle be terminated as soon as legally possible and that scholarship funds be provided where need is created by this decision...
...Children can and therefore should start learning almost at birth, or, as Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner put it: "Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest way to any child at any stage of development." On the contrary, the Moores say, many children's powers of vision and hearing are still forming until the age of eight. Thus they find it difficult to focus on objects at close range, like a book, and to distinguish between similar letters, like m and n. The Moores also cite studies indicating that the nerve fibers connecting the various parts...
...Bruner explained that he is leaving to gain new opportunities for research. "You know I've been here since 1939, and I realized I was probably in need of new perspectives. Also, I've been very much involved in University affairs here, and I would welcome a chance to concentrate more on my work," he said...
...Bruner graduated from Duke University in 1937 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1941. He has been a full professor since...