Word: enthusiasm
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...tore around the yard climbing trees and building G.I. Joe forts. He carried a Cabbage Patch doll named Sylvester, dressed in matching camo, under his arm. In school, teachers had trouble channeling his enthusiasm into classwork. "He could look at something and fix it. He didn't need a book," says Tomson. "In the military, it's hands on. He was in his element...
...Faculty’s lack of enthusiasm is also disconcerting because the ostensible purpose of the curricular review was to reinvigorate the curriculum and to create new classes. Faced with this uninspiring "new" rubric, faculty will be more likely to simply adapt their Core course to the new rubric, creating Core version...
...from a four-year debate marked, at times, by “retreat and sheer exhaustion.”“I think that the Faculty is ready to see something approved,” Mendelsohn said. “My sense is that there is enough general enthusiasm about the new program, and enough confidence that the committee appointed will be qualified to work out the details.”—Staff writer Alexandra Hiatt can be reached at ahiatt@fas.harvard.edu...
...religion course but retained the requirement of a course on the United States.“I think it’s great that the Faculty took possession of this program,” Menand said after the meeting. “I think there’s real enthusiasm for it.”In a marathon of six meetings over the past six weeks, the Faculty debated the place of history and of departmental courses in the new curriculum. Last month, professors voted that students be required to take one course engaged “substantially with...
...think it’s great that the Faculty took possession of this program,” Menand said after the meeting. “I think there’s real enthusiasm...