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Word: ming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the days our mother told us, "no running in the house," we knew she was really saying, "Don't knock over the Ming vase please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...Lowell House Masters, we offer our sincere and wide-eyed promise that we will not smash your Ming vases as we play our rainy-day games. In return, why not allow your all-too-serious future investment bankers a chance to kill or be killed. It's not all fun and games, we know, but we wish it were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...tempting as it may be to buy into the drama, Wei-Ming refuses to compromise his course. "I am not going to sacrifice my time and the time of others to entertain," Wei-ming says. "If [students] say, 'I am here to be entertained,' it will not be helpful in the long run. The issues are too serious...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...hard to tell if Wei-Ming's students appreciate his pedagogy. While his CUE guide rating is-considerably lower than that of most big class professors and his score has been dropping in recent years-the enrollment in his course is on the rise...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...When Wei-Ming looks at his large Moral Reasoning audience, he does not see a beast. Rather, a gigantic learning opportunity. His philosophy seems to suggest that some disciplines don't lend themselves to performance...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

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