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A 1961 Harvard graduate now teaching in Nigeria characterized the selection process this way: "It is quite unnerving to arrive at the training site and be told that all obstacles are still before you and then to be subjected to a marathon of psychological tests and interviews. In a short...
Katzenbach's toughest problem is the U.S.'s ninth biggest school system-the 284 overseas schools serving 161,040 children of military men abroad. He hears bitter complaints from the schools' 7,000 civilian teachers, whose pay has risen only $100 a year since 1960. But he...
A continual complaint in courses in the Humanities is that grading does not allow differences of opinion or interpretation--does not allow for the fact that truth in the humanities is plural. But in the sciences such a criticism is almost comically irrelevant. But it is also the singular character...
Dean Ford predicted yesterday that the new graduate fellowship program could lead to a "quiet revolution in undergraduate teaching," involving the creation of small sections for virtually all middle group courses and abandonment of the $5 a head exam grading system.
Undergraduates as well as Faculty members seem to think Soc Rel is a gut department. One reason is that the Department's teaching methods are often unorthodox, relying on combinations of lecture and group discussion. As a result, the courses seem informal and nonchalant to those used to more conventional...