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Among papers presented were studies of black women in the professions, and colloquia on mixed marriages and black family life...
David E. Gottlieb '75, organizer of the proposed magazine, said yesterday that the publication, to be issued four times yearly, would include reports on experiments and research by students and faculty on colloquia and on guest lectures in psychology at Harvard, Boston College, B.U., Brandeis, Northeastern and Tufts...
...rather than experience or ability to teach. Many of the tutors and section heads receive little orientation or preparation for their work. Despite many outstanding exceptions, Faculty members often give little help or supervision to their teaching fellows. Graduate students seldom have the opportunity to engage in seminars or colloquia devoted to the problems they will encounter as teachers and educators; they are often not even encouraged to use resources already available at Harvard for developing their abilities as teachers. Little thought is given by many departments either to the relationship of sections and tutorial to the broader purposes...
Hofstadter never liked to give a large lecture course but preferred the person-to-person give-and-take of colloquia and seminars. Dull students saw little of him, but for the rare brilliant ones he gave lavishly of his time and criticism. He was equally generous with friends. In his suggestions, as in his published work, he did not say what people might like to hear. Some of it was painful, but almost all of it was insightful. His was a creative mind providing direction in a confused...
...taught two courses on mathematical models for economic planning at the Economic Institute, which corresponds roughly to a department of economics at a university here, at the University of Havana. And I gave a series of seminars--colloquia really, since the membership varied considerably--on the economics of education. I also spent some time advising economists in the Ministry of Education and as well as the men responsible for the long-term planning of the University. What About Your Family...