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Although lectures were conceived initially as a method of keeping pace with an expanding student population, Paul L. Ward, President of Sarah Lawrence since 1960, finds a theoretical justification for them. "For the presentation of some material, a lecture course can be exceedingly exciting, and cover areas which simply cannot be explored in discussion groups," said Ward who was both a student and an instructor at Harvard...
...Ward emphasized the importance of seminars as well. "I think that basic history, as I understand it, is much better taught in sections," Ward explained. "For example, I think a Soc. Sci. 1-type lecture survey course is for the birds...
President Ward claims to have heard that the college is changing, but to be unable to detect the change himself. To justify his faith in the school's future, Ward listed several outstanding new teachers. Atop the list was Francis Randall...
President Ward appears not to understand the spirit of the school as his predessesors conceived it. Of course, he has inherited the conflicting demands of theory and necessity, and to some extent the inconsistancies in his argument are excusable. But his conclusions inevitably take the school farther away from its stated ideals...
Costanza died soon after, and Frederick grew up in Palermo, an unseen and uncared-for ward of the Pope. The boy, living almost as a beggar child, learned Arabic from the seaport's Arab sailors. He was to learn more than half a dozen other languages, including Hebrew and English. At 14 he was crowned King of Sicily. He held no power and had neither arms nor money. But by his late teens, chiefly by force of an agile mind and a personality radiantly well suited to rabble-and noble-rousing, he had seized control of his inherited German...