Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Merriman will continue to teach other undergraduate courses and will remain as Master of Eliot House for at least another year...
Walter E. Houghton, assistant professor in History and Literature, and George S. Pettee '26, faculty instructor in Government, have failed to secure renewed appointments, and will not return to teach here next fall...
Eight years ago, almost all of the two hundred and fifty accredited colleges in the United States agreed to waive their detailed entrance requirements, for an experimental group of thirty schools, all over the country. They freed these schools from the obligation to teach certain required subjects, and merely asked for a principal's recommendation, and usually the results of the Scholastic Aptitude, and Comprehensive English examinations. After eight years, they compared the records made by the thirty schools' graduates with those of an ordinary school group, with respect to academic success, adjustment to the college, extra-curricular activities...
...worse is flunking in the graduate school, most wary students taking graduate courses make sure they hit B, and A's are not at all unusual. This factor seems to draw many members of the department into the graduate school, where excellent men like Schumpeter, Leontieff, and Chamberlin teach...
...Might teach a frightened courage how to live...