Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"It is embarassing that professors, who spend so much time evaluating and criticizing other institutions, devote so little effort to finding ways to improve their own methods of instruction," Bok said.
Another professor noted for exceptional teaching, Namburg Professor of Music Luise Vosgerchian, explains her philosophy. "There are two ways of educating," she says. The first is for the professor to devote his or her life to research and then present the results to the students who can then "accept or...
The students who suffer most from that myth are the premeds. Contrary to the spirit of a liberal arts education, premedical students, striving for one of the precious spots in a medical school, devote more than one-third of their college educations to preparing for medicine. The rigorous requirements, as...
If there were any lingering doubts about the deftness of the new leader of the Soviet Union, his performance in the interview with TIME should lay them to rest. He displayed bravura rather than boiler plate, and his performance was rich in the raw material of Kremlinology. Soviet-affairs experts...
Theories: he had vanished to devote himself more fully to writing; he was fed up with police work; he was fleeing financial pressures (he owed $2,000 to a woman friend and was behind on alimony payments to his ex-wife). Where might the hefty, 5-ft. 11-in. chief...