Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the season is quite as bad as it may look. "This year has been good for me as far as leaning how to play forward," he says, adding, "even if I do play guard, I can go back to forward. And besides, Satch really knows how to teach...
While more than 80 Harvard professors are engaged specifically in teaching the various languages and literatures of Europe, not one single professor teaches the languages and literatures of Africa. Harvard has five fullfledged departments (Celtic, Classics, Germanic, Romance, and Slavic) in which these 80 professors teach, but it does not have a single department or program concerned with the teachings of African languages and literatures. Practically every one of the approximately two dozen languages of Europe is part of the normal curriculum of the University; yet not a single one of the indigenous languages of sub-Saharan Africa (estimated...
Normally, it is not possible to teach more than a limited number of languages in one department without a large number of faculty that are recruited gradually. But it is possible to select half a dozen to a dozen African languages on the basis of their long history of literary records, possession of extensive written or oral literature, modern usage in literature, education, commerce, and importance in philological studies and to group these languages together to form a departmental unit. Five professors who are experts in one specific area but who are able to handle several related languages...
...move is very similar to his proposal last spring that only two of five proposed research associates be hired to teach under the program's auspices...
...making plans to get the graduate teachers together in March before the new course catalogue comes out to make sure there will be enough people to teach courses next year," Migdal said...