Word: acquaintance
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History Professor Charles S. Maier ’60 said in an interview after the Faculty meeting that after an expulsion case a couple of years ago where the allegations themselves were contested, it became clear that it was too difficult to acquaint a large group of faculty members with the details of a particular case...
...1950s or in any way a veiled attempt at recreating the “pink ghetto” of generations past; this is merely an attempt at ensuring that boys and girls learn as productively and as efficiently as they can during the brief period in which they acquaint themselves with their changing bodies and changing selves. For the first time ever, formerly sexless children are suddenly curious about members of the opposite sex, and such curiosity is confusing, disorienting, and distracting, at least for the first year or so. In a classroom setting, it goes without saying that young...
...success,” Donato said. “Both teams are defensively sound. We try to play an up-tempo pressure game, and I think Cornell is a big, strong, physical, fore-checking team.”Though skating against the Big Red during the season helps acquaint Harvard with the style of hockey that Cornell likes to play, the Crimson players prefer to focus on maintaining discipline and executing their own strategy.“We have to focus on playing our game. I don’t worry about what the previous record...
...light of an upcoming trip to China, University President Drew G. Faust consulted a group of Harvard students who could help acquaint her with the rudiments of Chinese culture: what to expect, how to act, etc. While this was undoubtedly informative, FM came up with a couple more tips we thought she should know. 1) Don’t mention siblings—that’s just rubbing it in. 2) You can tell a lot from toasting: a person of lower status touches the rim of their glass below the rim of a higher-status counterpart. 3) Chinese...
...general course requirements. While this suspension might seem to strike a blow against broad education, it is worth remembering that the current program actually stifles many Harvard students’ personal quests for breadth. The faculty must agree it is bizarre that the current system, supposedly meant to acquaint students with various disciplines, ignores courses such as Psychology 1, “Introduction to Psychology” and History 20a, “Western Intellectual History.” Expanding the list of accepted departmental courses is, in fact, another goal to be phased in as part...