Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...need a new Varsity Club to help meet the tough competition for the best all-around high school boys, to enable us to get such men interested in Harvard," he said. "The competition is fierce, but a new Varsity Club would really give us a lift...
Fund raisers for the 92-year-old Episcopal University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. were testing a brand new scheme. With help from Episcopal laymen in Texas, they had persuaded ranchers to cut out one or more calves, lambs or kids during branding time, burn them with a special brand-an unadorned Latin cross. Come roundup time next fall, Sewanee would get all proceeds from the sale of the cross-marked livestock...
Most Ph.D.s who get instructors' jobs in U.S. colleges have had little or no training in teaching. Generally not required to take courses in education as grade and high-school teachers are, they are expected to learn pedagogical techniques as they go along. To help them over the bumps and bogs in the path of hard experience, Radcliffe Dean Bernice B. Cronkhite last week had turned out a Handbook for College Teachers (Harvard University Press...
French Scholar Andre Morize (Learn not "to talk with your hand in front of your mouth: it does not help!"), Historian David Owen ("Don't let yourselves become pedantic and pompous"), Biologist William H. Weston ("Never . . . feel an envious resentment toward [a student] if ... he shows promise of surpassing you"). Well up front, the Handbook offers a general caution or two about the whole profession. Writes famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, after eleven years as a teacher at Harvard: "It's a daunting business being a professor . . . You will have, if you join this curious trade, to walk...
Premature Burial. The entire bull market had grown with the help of the same kind of hindsight. Born early in 1948, it was knocked to its knees by fears of war, the Truman election, the business recession and dozens of other minor frights. By June 1949, when the Dow-Jones industrial average had skidded from 193.16 to 161.60, some market experts officially hung a crepe on the bull. But others insisted that stocks were dirt cheap. Enough investors took their advice to start the market moving upward, even though industrial production was still going down...