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...book, though physically small, is no light reading for summer afternoons. It is mostly a series of lectures (delivered at Yale) on teaching science to undergraduates who do not intend to become professional scientists. Dr. Conant's idea: illustrate the "scientific method" by citing historical cases in which science has solved tough problems. Science, he believes, cannot be a mere bulk of static knowledge, however large: "Almost by definition, science moves ahead...
Meanwhile, the publicity committee has tabulated the results of its Jubilee activities poll, distributed last week to Union Freshmen. More than 90 percent of those answering stated their intentions of coming to the May 10 formal, while about 75 percent intend to visit the informal "cabaret" Friday night...
...Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend to let his sweetness be wasted on the native bush...
...best as well as the worst teachers are fantastically overworked. Only about half those enrolled in state normal schools and teachers' colleges intend to teach;* there are graduates enough from these training schools to fill only about a third of the positions open. The situation is such that few but the timid, the incompetent, and those rare souls who have a true vocation for teaching can or will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt...
...intend to give the impression that the History Department was not tutoring Sophomores. Actually we are tutoring all Sophomores of Group III standing. The only respect in which we are not tutoring to the full extent permitted by Faculty vote is in the case of Group IV Sophomores whom Departments may, under Faculty policy, tutor half the year. David E. Owen, Chairman, Department of History...