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President Pusey has turned down a proposal for coeducational housing submitted by Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, and Jerome S. Bruner, Master of Currier House, the new Radcliffe dormitory scheduled to open in September...
Papousek is a pediatrician. He serves on the staff of the Research Institute for Mother and Child Care, which is operated in Prague by the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Health. This summer he is teaching and researching at Harvard at the invitation of Jerome Bruner, professor of Psychology here...
Oppenheimer set up a director's fund that has provided short-term professorships for such untypical Institute intellectuals as Critic Kenneth Burke and Psychologist Jerome Bruner. But Oppenheimer has resisted pressure to broaden the Institute's scope with the argument that it is better to do a few things well. Justifiably, he can claim that the Institute has achieved "massive preeminence" in theoretical mathematics. It was at the Institute that Von Neumann developed his games theory, and his speculations on programming, which proved essential to the development of the computer. Hermann Weyl polished his "group representations" approach...
...Your coverage of Harvard lecturers was lamentable. You mistake patronizing showmanship for inspired teaching. Professors Bruner and Fieser, though not so "entertaining" to freshmen as Professor Wald, communicate complex material far more comprehensively and effectively...
...copying these qualities. For one thing, no one knows enough about how students learn. "We know more about teaching rats, and we are more effective with psychotics and neurotics than we are with freshmen," says Caltech Psychologist John Weir. One of the leaders in cognition psychology, Harvard's Jerome Bruner, has long insisted that "any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest way to any child at any stage of development" (yet a recent Harvard Crimson course guide terms Bruner's own classes "incoherent...