Word: listens
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...students with more complete exposure to a particular field. We do not believe that students should have anywhere near full control over a department’s decisions of which courses to teach; rather, when there is consistent and reasonable student demand for additional course offerings, departments must listen...
...vote, he actually got on the phone and wrote back to tell me they had already approved the course. When a colleague of mine disagreed with a tenure decision in another department, Larry rang him and talked long and earnestly with him. This was an approachable president willing to listen to others if they spoke up. He wanted to change things, to reform the Core for real, to engage people in vigorous, open conversation. Many students I met loved it. He talked to them. To my own surprise, I found myself saying “we” about Harvard...
Every iTunes library has a few songs that leave their owner blushing. Listening to them is musical onanism; everyone does it, but no one wants to talk about what happens when the roommate’s out of the dorm.Or do they?The Crimson spoke with four of the most accomplished artists on campus and asked them: “What’s the point of ‘pop’ music?”Fun may be a factor, but the answer isn’t pure hedonism. Pop plays a different role in the lives...
...students to join in the discussion, serving them coffee and donuts. Professor Emeritus Richard A. Musgrave says Bok saw himself as “an instrument of serving the community effectively, being trustworthy, and really appealing to everybody.”However, Bok was not just a good listener; he frequently offered up his own opinions, too.“The most distinctive feature of Bok’s presidency was...his habit of addressing controversial and divisive issues by publishing public letters to the community at large which analyzed the issues, addressed the range of opinion, and defended...
...tell myself that each listen will be my last—so far I’ve had about 37 “last listens.” Every time that I press “play,” and the irresistible piano melody from “We Belong Together” (“Mimi’s” lead single) begins, I lose a little more respect for myself. But by the time the chorus comes around, I am so enraptured by the song’s exquisite pop-craft that not even the thought...