He began to lecture at the Ecole Normale in 1964.

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Though Georgetown is still in a pilot phase, Russell says a statistics professor in the School of Foreign Service has tracked a steady rise in average grades among students since he began employing lecture capture.

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Decades before the 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression, a Baptist minister named Russell Conwell began to deliver a lecture to groups of impoverished and dejected individuals around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and ultimately, the entire country.

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