Word: neglecting
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...nearly perfect commentary on the current state of Harvard teaching, Smith wrote: "If in each college the tutor or teacher, who was to instruct each student...should not be voluntarily chosen by the student, but appointed by the head of the college; and if, in case of neglect, inability, or bad usage, the student should not be allowed to change him for another...[it] would not only tend very much to extinguish all emulation among the different tutors of the same college, but to diminish very much in all of them the necessity of diligence and of attention to their...
...That neglect has long troubled Ken Small, a local innkeeper. Small learned of the disaster in the early 1970s, after finding American coins and ammunition washed up on the beach, and he began lobbying the U.S. and British governments for a memorial. This week a simple but official plaque will be dedicated to the dead of Exercise Tiger. "I am not a religious man," says Small, "but I felt something driving me on to do this...
...PERHAPS the most comprehensive study of the state of the academic profession in recent years, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching last week called attention to the tendency of major universities to neglect teaching while unduly emphasizing research in tenure decisions. "Too often," foundation president Ernest L. Boyer wrote in the foreword to the 360-page report, "universities give the highest rewards to those faculty members who may not be committed to giving their best efforts to the students." Harvard undergraduates--in case those watching recent tenure decisions have been wondering--aren't the only people concerned that...
...tenure decisions. But it looks increasingly as if the elaborate calculus by which teaching is taken into account needs some adjustment. And as last week's report said, Harvard's influence in academia gives it a particular obligation to reaffirm the worth of good teaching. If schools like Harvard neglect teaching, the report said, "other institutions are likely to undervalue it as well...
...foreword to the report, Ernest L. Boyer,the foundation's president, wrote thatuniversities should not neglect teaching in orderto remain on the `cutting edge' of academicresearch...