Word: contact
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course, someone will chime in that I should have gone to a Swarthmore, Williams, or Wesleyan if I wanted that kind of professor contact. But that’s ludicrous, because as they always say, where else could I meet such interesting, brilliant people as here at Harvard—people who have impressively collected a dilettante’s knowledge of quantum physics and Wittgenstein, and who aren’t afraid to bore me with it over beers...
Only in small seminar discussions are students sufficiently intimidated by close contact with distinguished professors, who not only have a better mastery of the material but are also not afraid to tell students they’re wrong. So when the class megalomaniac says something obtuse like, “I think we should discuss the theological implications of the eschatological, and Stephen Dedalus is the devil,” the professor will respond, “No, I don’t think that’s relevant at all. In fact, I wish you would think more before...
...were warned when we got to Khost that there may be suicide bombers in town, so we took precautions. I wrapped a scarf tightly around my head to hide my blond hair, and thought about buying a pair of brown contact lenses next time I return to the U.S. Balazs Gardi, TIME's photographer, traded his polar fleece and khakis for a shalwar kameez, the loose tunic and baggy trousers worn by Afghan men. Suicide bombers here often seek targets of opportunity, so we didn't want to draw any attention to ourselves...
...Harvard and its Faculty" did not completely represent the former University president's views on the undergraduate curricular review. He also said in an interview after the speech, "Much of it reflects things that were my focus during my presidency," and praised half a dozen initiatives, including faculty-student contact, the empirical reasoning requirement, the attention to pedagogy, secondary concentrations, and the emphasis on actual knowledge rather than ways of knowing...
...other medical school programs, HMS students now spend their third year in a single hospital rather than rotating through several institutions. The reforms, designed to improve student relationships with patients and doctors, are simply untenable without expanded faculty involvement. Not surprisingly, the initial results of this increased student-faculty contact have been promising. Theoretically, these incentives would not be unnecessary, and doctors—like professors on Harvard’s other faculties—would be as attracted to the classroom as they were to a new book or a $100,000 surgery. Realistically, however, doctors and professors have...