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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...speaker's evangelical fervor poured forth naturally: he was Joseph Fielding Smith, 84, grandnephew of the founder, grandson of the prophet's martyred brother Hyrum, son of former Mormon President Joseph F. Smith, and himself senior member of the Council of the Twelve (the group of elders who are the spiritual and administrative leaders of the church). Traveling through southern Brazil on the first leg of an inspection tour of Mormon missions in five Latin American countries, Smith could be well satisfied with what he saw. Working without pay and under primitive conditions, Brazil's 267 Mormon...
...institute will recruit up to 20 women with Ph.D.s and specific projects, call them "Associate Scholars," and pay them $3,000 a year to flex their minds amid Radcliffe's (and Harvard's) libraries and mostly male professors. Another group of "Resident Fellows," e.g., teachers on sabbatical, will get less pay but the same privileges...
...theory, the House seminars offer small-group instruction to any student not tutored in his field of concentration. At present the non-tutored students make up less than half of the program's total enrollment...
Behind the preponderance of already-tutored undergraduates are two significant facts about the membership of an average seminar. First, 60 per cent of the regular participants are Honors candidates. Second, a majority of the students in a given group are concentrating in a field related to the seminar's topic. Also, most of the seminars are in the Humanities or Social Sciences, and virtually every department in these areas tutors its Honors concentrators...
...good example of a seminar that includes only Dean's List students is a Quincy House group working on English composition with Mrs. Edward T. Wilcox, wife of the Director of Advanced Standing. Mrs. Wilcox discusses papers that course graders have already returned to the six students in the seminar, She has yet to cover a paper...