Word: tailoring
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...have started to do a lot more on advising,” wrote Cutler, who is also Eckstein professor of applied economics. “It’s a very big challenge because of the large number of students and the desire to tailor programs to particular students. But it’s an area where the College has thought a great deal, and where we believe we are making great strides...
...bronze, as well as later Chinese ceramic, but had few pieces of early ceramic. With his goal in mind, Sedgwick focused on building this collection for the past 10 years; “Right from the beginning with the intent that it would come to Harvard. It was tailor made for the museum,” said Mowry. “The collection allows the museum to provide a continuous narrative of the development of Chinese ceramic history from the Neolithic to the Qing,” Lippit said. This element of the collection, like the Japanese sculpture, is probably...
...uninteresting or that are badly taught. The faculty needs to put faith into the ability of undergraduates to choose what is right. There must be a large enough menu so that a market for courses develops, allowing the pedagogical cream to rise to the top and allowing students to tailor the curriculum to their interests. A good criterion is that no student with a requirement left in their senior year should be pigeonholed into taking something they are not enthusiastic about.We are also unsure whether the 10 categories specified by the report are the best divisions to fulfill the report?...
...honor to be included with such a distinguished group.” Conspicuously missing from the lineup was student favorite Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language Leland de la Durantaye, whom the second IvyGate editor described as looking “very much like a young tailor, very dashing.” Also absent was Chemistry 30: “Organic Chemistry” foreign hottie Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Tobias Ritter. So what if Princeton and Columbia won—they’re dumber, their endowment is smaller, and one of them...
...splitting all-night techno rave. "It was an experiment, the first time we've done this," says Andrus Villem, the Patarei's project manager, who wants to exorcise the ghosts of the past by turning the fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland...