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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...
Several prominent figures who delivered past Gordon lectures at Harvard have been—or have gone on to be—heads of state. The list includes President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia this year; then-President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique in 2004; President Festus G. Mogae of Botswana in 2000; former British Prime Minister John Major in 1999; and former President George H.W. Bush in 1998. And it appears that Pataki aspires to the title of president as well. While he has not officially announced a bid for his party’s nomination in 2008, his political...
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...
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...