Word: taught
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...reforms, prepared for the Faculty by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, require every full-time Faculty member to teach a minimum of one tutorial each term. In addition, the legislation asks professors to supervise all tutorials taught by graduate students and to offer special seminars in lieu of graduate-taught junior tutorials. The legislation also mandates a student-faculty committee in each department to oversee its tutorial program and recommend changes to the department's head tutor and chairman...
...Bowersock's argument that professors ideally are the appropriate tutorial leaders. John Gibbons, graduate student Government tutor, agrees that "professors are simply better scholars." However, professors and the University have long ago set priorities that prevent student exploitation of these Faculty skills. Robert N. Brandon, a graduate student who taught Philosophy tutorial three years ago, said the problem partially arose from "faculty members' disinterest in teaching in general, because this is a major research university." Brandon added gently, "It is not that they don't like teaching so much. They just like other things better...
Marius's decision provoked criticism from students who viewed their fiction Expos as one of their most valuable Harvard experiences, but he drew the strongest fire from his own staff, in particular from Diana Thomson, who has taught fiction Expos for ten years...
...graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy, Cephas taught history at the Choate-Rosemary Hall School in 1975. "Prep schools can turn a bright, energetic kid around and send him flying in the direction of further education and achievement," he said...
Stone said Moses did not listen to the way other people taught squash, and that she was not sure whether he used proper teaching methods...