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...last Saturday's article about the firing of Samuel Bowles, chairman of the Economics Department was quoted to the effect that teaching is a factor in decisions regarding promotion at Harvard. What hogwash! Anybody who has ever taken courses in the department is well aware that the men who teach those courses never could have been chosen on the basis of their ability to teach. The only reason that most students attend classes at all is because they have to get by the general exams given by those same...
...that Professor Samuel Popkin has been released from jail, it should be possible to offer some negative comments on the reasoning behind his defense without being in the position of kicking somebody while he is down. Certainly some negative comments are in order...
Certainly some lecturers are more scintillating than others, but by peddling lectures as the primary mode of learning, some so-called teachers convey distance from and disinterest in their courses and students. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote that to lecture is "to instruct insolently and dogmatically." If Harvard students call for more personal education, it is because they have found this dictum out for themselves...
...WITHOUT WORDS KRAPP'S LAST TAPE HAPPY DAYS NOT! by SAMUEL BECKETT...
...characters in Samuel Beckett's plays are continually drawing their next-to-last breath of life. Thus it is fitting that three old playlets of his-Act Without Words (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Happy Days (1961)-and one new one, Not I, are currently on view at the Forum, little sister to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Thanks to a fiscally inept board of directors, the Forum is drawing its last foreseeable breath with the Beckett quartet...