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Doggerel aside, Neusner, 74, lives by the story's moral: confrontation is part of his makeup, take it or leave it. One might expect many Christians to leave it. But at least one has not. In his new book, Jesus of Nazareth (Doubleday; $24.95), Pope Benedict XVI devotes 20 pages to A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, a 161-page grenade Neusner lobbed in 1993. In that volume, the professor (now at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and noncongregational rabbi projected himself back into the Gospel of Matthew to quiz Jesus on the Jewish law. He found the Nazarene...
According to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, input from students and tutors in a House has been—and will continue to be—an important part of the process of selecting House masters. We hope this is not mere lip service...
It’s late on a Saturday night in the near future, and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has received a nightmare call. A student has died from alcohol intoxication after a night of binge drinking with a student organization—and was not taken to University Health Services (UHS). Soon afterwards, Gross must call the student’s parents to deliver the news...
...Ness monster of Harvard perennially sighted by those who recall the days of the “Gentleman’s C”—has yet again reared its head. In a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Science last week, Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 provided updated statistics that drew him to the conclusion that “grade compression continues to be a concern.” His evidence: Over half of the grades awarded to undergraduates were in the “A” range...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda Skocpol urged their colleagues to require mandatory evaluations for all classes with at least five students. According to Gross, 95 percent of courses currently are evaluated, but, Skocpol said, course evaluation “is an instrument that works best if everybody...