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...areas of interest or jointly present each lecture.The impromptu group-taught course that Hartl had as an undergraduate fits under what outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who has co-taught a Core course on Chinese history, calls “tag-team” teaching. In contrast to collaborative teaching, tag-teams take turns being in the lecture hall.“It tends to work less well when somebody shows up one day, somebody else shows up another day,” Kirby says. “Tag-team team teaching seems to work less well...
...Faculty was preparing to overwhelmingly pass a no confidence resolution on Summers’ leadership at its Feb. 28 meeting, so many Faculty members were expected to show up that planners were set to convene the meeting in Sanders Theater instead of the customary Faculty Room. In April, by contrast, when the first measures of the three-year-old curricular review were finally being brought to the floor, the Faculty could barely muster the quorum it needed to take votes on the legislation. (At one meeting, some absent professors had to be called to rush to the Faculty Room...
...along the “Silk Road” with Mark Elliott from East Asian Languages and Civilizations and with Richard Wolf from the Music Department as their guides. Michael Puett of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Roberto Mangabeira Unger from the Law School will reflect on the contrast between two attitudes—staying out of trouble and looking for trouble—in the East and West. Sean Kelley from the Philosophy Department will offer “Existentialism in Literature and Film.” And Thomas Lewis in Religion will address questions about the nature...
...Memorial. Unlike the John Harvard statue, the Women’s Memorial portrays our cultural heroes as accessible: when you visit the site, you can see that each woman holds a pen, frozen in the act of writing something down. When you pass the John Harvard statue, by contrast, all you can really see is the polished toe of his shoe because he sits far above us, looking downThe Memorial displays three famous women leaders—Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, and Lucy Stone—all cast in bronze. But the women are not free-standing sculptures; rather, their...
...bold tact might succeed in an environment where politicians are scurrying for accomplishments before the next election, Summers faced faculty members with lifetime tenures who had little tolerance for his prodding ways. Perhaps one of the great ironies of Summers’ presidency will prove to be the stark contrast between his ability to develop a bold plan for Harvard and his decided failure in getting others to buy into that plan. Summers brought a penchant for controversy unseen in Mass. Hall ever before, stirring perhaps a half-dozen controversies that each would have been tenure-defining mishaps...