Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word evokes quaint images of cabinetmakers or alchemists teaching eager youths the secrets of their trade. Yet apprenticeship -- the acquisition of knowledge through practice in the presence of a master -- is a time-tested teaching method whose applications go far beyond the shop floor. The principle is at work every time someone takes a total-immersion language lesson, follows a doctor on his rounds to learn how to practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means...
According to Coop stockholder and Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59, successive directors have eyed that building hungrily. But despite the Coop's close ties to Harvard, the University is not selling...
...probably wasn't until [her] Commencement day that I knew her name was Benazir," says Alan E. Heimert '49, master of Eliot House, where Bhutto spent her undergraduate years. "She was always just Pinkie...
Resolution lay in a "heated and frank" discussion at a master-sponsored house dialogue, publishing the truth about both parties actions at the Mather dance, and in a realization of the difficulty of truly accepting the rights of others to do something as fundamental as kiss or hold hands with another in public. But it is a necessary, absolute acceptance...
Hernandez-Gravelle and Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57 said that starting next year, house masters will ask tutors to voluteer for training at a workshop on race relations given by Hernandez-Gravelle in the fall...