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...before winter break presents logistical difficulties. “We would have to restructure a lot of calculus sections if we wanted to end earlier in the semester,” Benesh said. Certain topics would have to be left out, which would affect what must be taught in higher level calculus classes. Kenneth Maxwell, a visiting professor of history, said he offered the final exam for his course, History 1757, “History of Latin America to 1825, ” before December because it worked better with the class’ schedule...
...such complaints expose an often overlooked double standard: We expect our professors to teach us the skills we need to know, yet we expect our professors to somehow innately know how to teach without ever having been taught how to do so. Just as our abilities to craft theses don’t simply materialize in the night, professors are not hatched from graduate schools knowing how to teach. Teaching itself is a skill that must be learned and taught...
...years between Hollywood's make-believe headlines and the horrifying reality of Somalia, Hepburn as actress and woman seemed an emissary from a finer world than ours. She taught, by example, what a lady was: a vessel of grace and gravity, ready wit, eldritch charm: a woman whose greatest discretion was to hide her awareness of her splendor. She refused to be tyrannized by her own beauty...
...talked about how the timing was not exactly what he himself expected, but with a tremendous response from the nation, that this is an important moment and a great opportunity to step forward,” Wilkins said. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, who taught Obama and employed him as a research assistant, remembers him as a “brilliant, personable, and obviously unique” person. Tribe said that Obama’s theoretical perspective on applying modern physics to law was “very impressive...
...modern public sector economics—was in retirement.Musgrave, who died Monday at age 96, also came from an era preceding current economics faculty. But his ideas about the state’s role in the economy left a lasting impact felt by Harvard faculty and alums today.Having taught public finance at Harvard for about two decades, Musgrave had been an emeritus professor since 1981.“The training I received well after he had retired was different because he was around,” said Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87.Concerned with...