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More than half a century ago, the noted American neurologist, Weir Mitchell, chewed some of the mescal buttons of the peyote cactus and reported that he felt "as if the unseen millions of the Milky Way were to flow in a sparkling river before my eyes." He predicted "a perilous reign of the mescal habit when this agent becomes attainable." To some, it seems that the perilous reign has begun-not through Mitchell's bitter buttons but through their enormously more powerful relative, lysergic acid diethylamide...
...general improvement of teaching, however, cannot be accomplished simply by copying these qualities. For one thing, no one knows enough about how students learn. "We know more about teaching rats, and we are more effective with psychotics and neurotics than we are with freshmen," says Caltech Psychologist John Weir. One of the leaders in cognition psychology, Harvard's Jerome Bruner, has long insisted that "any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest way to any child at any stage of development" (yet a recent Harvard Crimson course guide terms Bruner's own classes "incoherent...
Born. To Heller Halliday Weir, 22, Mary Martin's daughter, who played with mother in Peter Pan, and Anthony Weir, 28, Madison Avenue ad man: their first child, a boy, and Mary's third grandchild; in Manhattan...
Harvard's best performance came from junior Dave Abramson, who stroked from behind in the final seven yards of the 500 free to touch out Navy's Buddy Weir in 5:19.0. Abramson had less trouble with Weir in the 200-yard freestyle, bettering him by a full second with...
Munro was also able to use all four of his goalies. Ormond Hammond played the first half, making three saves and allowing all four Tufts goals. Jim Weir played the third quarter and made three saves. For the first ten minutes of the fourth quarter, Jim Leaf tended the nets, turning aside seven Jumbo shots, and Bunli Yang finished the game with three saves...