Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOUSE COURSES have been the Harvard equivalent of motherhood and apple pie. Everyone knows that hordes of students apply to get into them and that tutors teach them with religious enthusiasm. And to those who complain that the lecture system is impersonal and often ineffective, administrators can hold up house courses as evidence that Harvard is, after all, a progressive institution academically...
Others worry that the rapid growth of house courses is putting pressure on every house to come up with a full roster like Winthrop's, that the pressure may lead some Masters to recruit volunteers, and in the long run, might make willingness to teach house courses a criterion for hiring resident tutors...
...decreasing teaching loads, one Harvard professor has voluteered to teach the same course twice...
That was only the first hurdle. Bossert uses closed-curcuit television to teach the course, because he likes to write programs in class, and he wants his students to be able to see the teletype keyboard and printouts as each program is being developed...
...TEACH us to be honest, but what we see around us is a world afraid of the truth--a culture characterized by hypocrisy, evasion, distortion, and outright lies. We have long since grown accustomed to such dishonesty from the mass media and from the elected officials who rule our nation. This past year the affliction seems to have spread even to the highest reaches of our own university. Indeed, almost as often as our brothers at Columbia, we have had occasion to recall the late Upton Sinclair's descripiton of the modern college president as "the most universal faker...