Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have complained often of the inaccessibility of professors at Harvard. Occupied with obtaining tenure, writing books, articles, and campaign speeches, undergrads who may have no actual knowledge of the field of study but are just interested in learning really serve no purpose to the busy professor. Office hours are hard to come by and when one is lucky enough to obtain them, they last about five minutes. This has become, however unfortunate, commonplace. What cannot and should not become regular and accepted is the stifling classroom forum, dominated by graduate students desperate for dissertation advisors, recommendations or employment...
...actual course-work, students are often less enthusiastic. While they acknowledge it is usually interesting, many complain that it often doesn't teach them anything they don't already know...
...periods and events are crucial to any person's understanding of specific historical occurrences, simply learning about one of them does not make an educated person. Which leads us to our old conclusion that the Core should allow survey courses like History 10, which teach not only methods but actual facts and dates...
...people are worried, that's just as important as [an actual] threat," he said
...enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person of actual charm and talent...