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...wish to discourage faculty from teaching courses related to their research interests. Often times they are the best courses at Harvard. We still believe that departments’ primary consideration in hiring professors should be the quality of a scholar??s work. But departments must bear in mind that the primary mission of the College is to educate its undergraduates. Where gaps need to be filled, the College and individual departments must react accordingly...
Enter the energetic and ambitious Professor Harold H. Koh ’75, who is now the dean of Yale Law School. Spurred by a varied group of Yale law students—including a rebel and a Rhodes Scholar??Koh filed suit against the U.S. in a Brooklyn federal district court. He argued that the Haitians had a right to counsel and that the government was illegally denying him access to his clients. The Justice Department struck back with the same argument that had convinced the Atlanta appeals court...
Glances of recognition and excited murmurs reportedly trail the famed professor around the Princeton campus, just as they once did back in Cambridge. His lectures and seminars are wildly popular among students, but some don’t seem to take him seriously as a scholar??largely because he has continued pursuing the kinds of projects that got him into trouble with Summers...
...volume biography of Roosevelt and a notoriously sub-par work on Ronald Reagan, Morris has no obvious ties to the music world. However, he goes out of his way to mention on the back flap that he is both a pianist and a “private music scholar?? who has been studying Beethoven with 50 years of devotion. These credentials sound about as compelling as those of the ousted director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D. Brown. (But when Morris discusses at First Parish tonight, he will have the opportunity to show off his skills...
...start any history lesson with an article from the day’s newspaper. Can you?9. Put your knowledge to use: A huge problem for many of the nation’s teachers is a lack of sufficient knowledge in their subject of instruction. Even a Rhodes Scholar??s expertise must be coupled with substantial teacher training, but, by the time we complete our intense concentration requirements, most of us at least have the essential subject background needed to teach at the elementary if not the high school level. Don’t let those semesters...