Word: classing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopes that when the deans meet that no one brings up two old dreamers, those roamers of open fields, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, and Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837. Writing of his fellow alumnus, Emerson observed, "He declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well... He was therefore secure of his leisure...
...fact that Putnam knows people personally makes the class more interesting," Linos says. "He has insight as to how people...
What I do hope to offer is empathy. Today, make sure to smile extra big to the person in your life who smokes. Sit with them at lunch, walk to class together or plan to paint the town (what there is of one) in New Haven. Show you care. These are things we should be doing every day, of course, but perhaps today they can make an extra difference and show smokers what a day without nicotine can be like...
...never cancel a class. I schedule everything else around my academic commitments because I consider that to be my primary responsibility," Orfield says, adding that a lot of faculty who don't have outside projects are often less hesitant to cancel a class or to stay available to students...
Katerina Linos '00, who participated in Putnam's undergraduate seminar last year, agrees that the class gains a new dimension if the instructor is intimately familiar with his field...