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...interim University President Derek C. Bok’s “Our Underachieving Colleges” and 2006’s “Excellence Without A Soul: How A Great University Forgot Education”—an expose by former dean of the College and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68—the report also echoes the pragmatic educational ideals that John Dewey sought at the turn of the twentieth century.Dewey believed that teaching students the relationship between academic texts and their own experience would lead them...
...tutorial (consisting of only six people, mind you—SIX!) so desperately needed to know what everyone else got on the first paper that she suggested everyone e-mail their grades to an impartial third party, who would then relay the grade distribution to the group. English Prof. Gordon Teskey was spotted walking arm-in-arm with a lady. A punch on a punch trip, in a drunken stupor, had his foot run over by a taxi in NYC on Friday night. He yelled for a minute and fell on the sidewalk, but survived—at least until...
Just days before the annual Harvard-Yale football match, a conspicuous Eli will enter enemy territory. New York Republican Governor George E. Pataki, who graduated from Yale in 1967, will deliver the Albert H. Gordon Lecture on Finance and Public Policy here on Nov. 14, the Institute of Politics (IOP) announced yesterday...
Lewis reached out to Gordon after he read his former’s student’s review of “Excellence” in the online publication, The Asian Review of Books...
After two decades of being out of touch, Lewis said, the two began collaborating this year on plans for Lewis to speak about his book in Hong Kong—where Gordon is currently based...