Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, Ponder kept bucking the system. In the semester finals he flunked six students including Minter. History Professor Robert Seager, the chairman of Annapolis' newly created chapter of the American Association of University Professors, upheld Ponder's position, insisting that grading is "an academic function and must be the prerogative of the individual teacher...
...this proves too restrictive for Harvard's "Great Men," the most elemental function that the chairman could fulfill would be to relay projected plans of absence to the students instead of surprising them at the beginning of each academic year. The system of bracketing courses in the catalogue is blatantly inadequate because it becomes dated soon after publication. The students deserve up-to-date notice of professorial plans...
WHDH offered a prize for the funniest saying sent in. Potter wrote, "In the Heisenberg representation of quantum electrodynamics, the radiative corrections to the scattering matri are best evaluated using the anti-commutater of the renormalized Green's function with its irreducible Spinner invariant." It didn't win, but the announcer read it on the air because "it sounded profound...
Speaking in Lowell with a hook-up to Burr, Rogers, who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Western Behavorial Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., called teaching a "vastly overrated function," and described the real goal of teachers as the facilitation of learning. The trully educated man, he said, is the man who has learned how to learn...
Finding pertinent answers to these questions means piercing beneath the Department stereotypes and routine data to seek out articulate informants. In this first issue, we have been more descriptive than critical, for the guide's primary function is not to praise or damn the departments, but to help freshmen reach a decision. But this beginning investigation should lead to further in-depth studies of the departments. And future guides, hopefully, can report not only what the departments are, but also what they ought...