Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple steps taken by the Department would clear up this whole mess. First, some one professor should be made responsible for re-organizing the elementary courses. Math A and Math 2 should adopt more modern texts better organized for what Harvard intends to teach and for the way Harvard intends to teach it. Different sections could be required to do a minimum amount of identical work in that text; and giving the same exam to the whole course would be pressure enough on the instructors to enforce the rule. An advanced section in Math 2 could take care of concentrators...
According to this editorial, the instructors are unprepared. This is an absurdity. The officers who instruct the courses are line officers of the Navy who have seen duty aboard naval craft and will see it again. These men know that which they teach; they have not only studied it, but much responsibility has depended on their knowledge. Any incapability would have caused their dismissal. When the editor stated that these officers were not trained for pedagogical work, he failed to consider that, as active officers, they were required to train the men beneath them. In addition, these men are older...
...avoid errors of method--as indeed we have learned, in refusing again to set such a trap for ourselves as Wilson's submarine policy, which put the peace of the United States at the mercy of the strategic calculations of the German High Command. But whatever the past may teach us, it is still the problem of the present which must be solved...
...raider had prepared himself well for his World War II job. In 1930 he poked about the Caribbean for two months with a crew of 46 U. S. youngsters, to teach them "a love of the sea." By 1937 he was back in his World War I hunting grounds on a two-year round-the-world junket. With his sailing yacht Seeteufel he slipped through Australian waters, taking soundings, making a picture record of his trip with the help of a Nazi Government photographer. A New Zealander who accompanied him from Auckland to Sydney discovered the Seeteufel buttressed with steel...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 69, has a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her studies in tuberculosis. Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Rockefeller Institute once called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...