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...Titular accolades, such as the existing Harvard College Professorship, could serve as compelling incentive. (In this arena, Harvard might be wise to follow Yale, which presents six faculty members in six fields with teaching awards and several minutes of public praise on Class Day.) Good teachers could choose to instruct younger or less effective teachers in methods they themselves have found successful. They could be offered coveted living situations, either in the role of House Master or in local real estate, or could be invited to chair committees on undergraduate education and extracurricular life...
Finally, for a laugh or two, stop by the Silly Tasting Note Generator at gmon.com/tech/stng.shtm which spoofs pedantic wine criticism. You can instruct the program to pour out "normal silly" or "extra silly" comments--maybe even one sillier than "the tightly woven texture of pigeon flesh...
...disabled to prevent unwanted contact with tech-savvy TFs), automatic spam filtering, nearly unlimited storage capacity, and a delightfully exclusive “invitation-only” system of adding new users. E-mails from your FAS account can easily be forwarded to gmail, and you can instruct gmail to respond as though you were using your FAS e-mail address, so no one need know that you’re slowly divorcing yourself from the world of academic and extracurricular obligations. Perhaps best of all, google’s smart-ad system transitions nicely to their e-mail server...
...thing, the study of literature and art has the power to illuminate the human experience in a way that no other mode of inquiry can. We agree with the Task Force on General Education’s general position that courses in general education should provide undergraduates with relevant instruction. But “relevant” does not necessarily mean “immediately practical,” especially at an institution of liberal arts. To treat literature and the arts as mere tools for the investigation of different societies—essentially, the philosophy...
...minute tutorial will instruct audience members to follow the red-light and green-light cues for their phones before the concert opens with "Redes," a piece by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Green light means turn your phone on and/or play you ringtone; red means let the orchestra take charge. Chiming in with the Sinfonietta will be two accomplished young musicians: pianist Alexander Kobrin from Moscow, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, and violinist Melissa White playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...