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...judgment, it’s easier for them to do that if they see historians disagree,” says Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, who teaches Historical Studies A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” with History chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. “History is probably one of the best fields to team teach.”Team-taught humanities courses are often divided chronologically.“It’s a little better to do this kind of thing with a team...
...Clinton’s Treasury secretary, quickly became known for a “Washington-style” attitude toward the media.It was that style, some say, that contributed to his increasing alienation from the Faculty and his ultimate downfall this semester. ACADEMIA’S PHOTO-OPAndrew D. Gordon ’74, the chair of the History department, tells a story about the first time he had “a sense of real concern about what is going on with this administration.” That point came in a December 2001 planning meeting for Summers?...
...Harvard is apparent even in their clear-eyed criticisms.We have all learned from the past five years. With all of Harvard’s strengths, it will flourish—if it doesn’t make the same mistakes again.Harry R. Lewis ’68 is Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science and Harvard College professor. He was dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003. He is the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education...
...taught by Elkins. “I left lecture every time with my hand hurting.”In the History Department, Elkins “engages in all kinds of issues...and is not afraid to speak out on them,” says Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, who adds that Elkins’ book was “interesting and accessible to a large audience,” which is not easy to do, especially on the first try.ONE DOWN, MORE TO GOLying amidst her backpacks from a recent trip to the Oral History...
...shop, with its worn couch, its even more battered armchair, its dark-grained bookshelves, and a table piled high with books, was the perfect fantasy bookshop. Friends, acquaintances, whatever literary light was in town would drop by to visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies of the first printing of Ulysses smuggled in under the coats of various customers and, much later, to stock copies of W.H. Auden’s “Platonic Blow...