Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Building up a true military morale out of the curriculum of any American university could be accomplished only if that curriculum were completely junked and a manual of arms substituted in its place. History courses teach the bungling corruption of one after another of our American heroes. Government course strip the glamour off the gleaming facade of our administrative set-up. Psychology reduces emotion, patriotic or otherwise, to nothing more than a stimulus-response mechanism. And a course as basic as Ec A, by adding one and one, dos its part in exploding the myth of free competition...
...does not look it. Short (5 ft. 4 in.), rotund (180 lb.), 48, he grew up in New York City and went to Columbia, where he wrote a Ph.D. thesis on what was then (1916) the revolutionary theory of an annual wage for seasonal industries. Intending to teach, he was so irritated by the blank laughter his views aroused among businessmen that he went into business himself. His first venture was an unlikely scheme to sell U.S. oil products in bulk to Palestine. The first shipment netted him $20,000, and in three years he had 40% of the market...
...Harvard organized the Commission of Extension Courses as it stands today, taking the funds from the Lowell foundation. Harvard was not the only college taking part in President Lowell's brain child, for other colleges in the vicinity of Boston chipped in with a number of men willing to teach the courses...
Often confused with the extension courses, but in no way connected with the College authorities are the courses offered by the Massachusetts Department of Education. Although these State courses are held in Harvard building, they are in more practical subjects, such as Navigation and bookkeeping their object being to teach a trade...
...toughest problem with any Freshman squad is to teach the Individuals, having varied training and experience, to play together. To date, the forty-fivers have tackled only one freshman squad, Dartmouth, which would be on the same basis of lack of teamwork. They lost this perennially different battle 3-0. Their other opponents have netted them two wins...