Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the faculty complains about demands on its time and admits that teaching is an important part of its job, students see an aspect of the problem when they learn that the professor who has been bored and boring in a lecture course is the leading scholar in his field...
...student with an alert and critical mind, the ideal professor is the scholar who can teach. For such a student will demand an instructor who is at the forefront of the field, and who considers the field a live one. There are, however, very few Kittridge's at Harvard now, or at any time. There are very few professors who give brilliant lectures in the morning, write penetrating essays in the evening, and give friendly dinners on Sunday afternoons...
Another exception to the rule that the best scholar is the best teacher concerns the creative artist. There are already, in the English Department, men solely concerned with writing rather than scholarship who will probably stay at Harvard for years without ever becoming professors...
...these men are challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and authors are more apt to visit Harvard for a year and give extra-curricular talks, rather than courses where their ideas can be given a closer discussion and where students can exchange ideas with the artist...
...second or third-year graduate students, who have the greatest contact with the undergraduate, and who are at the same time subject to the greatest academic-scholastic pressures. When their promotions are considered, their teaching record is considered, but it hardly the determining factor. They realize that the good scholar will probably gain the instructorship, rather than the very good teacher...