Word: teach
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Clive will teach two middle-level courses on British history this year, filling in a two-century gap in the History Department's presentation of English history. In addition, he will apply some of his leave research to the preparation of a General Education course, to be called Social Sciences 105, "Classics of Historical Writing: 18th Century to the Present," which is scheduled to begin next fall...
...told there almost 400 tenured faculty members at Harvard, and about three times as many who teach in various capacities. You, most likely, will end up spending most of your time with graduate students as your teachers, and may even get one as your thesis adviser. Want to reconsider...
...eaves you will see the inscription, "What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?" This inscription plaque was originally going to bear some sort of fruity paean to the excellence of man but President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, decided that he was going to teach the faculty a lesson in humility and he ordered that the less than exuberant quotation from Job be chiseled...
...above is a course description from the Harvard University Course Catalogue. Pretty boring, isn't it? What's worse, it's not really that informative. After all, it is only what the professor thinks his course is supposed to teach, no more and usually a lot less. It says absolutely nothing about what the course actually teaches and how well that is taught...
...bureaucracy is now trying to teach itself better manners. The autodidactic exercise began after West Germany's Postal Minister, Kurt Gscheidle, suffered a frustrating run-in with his own employees while trying to buy stamps. Gscheidle was treated so rudely that he vowed to bring about a change. He ordered the post office, West Germany's biggest federal employer (480,000 workers), to start three-day courses in better behavior for its counter clerks. Among the lessons: no grimacing or staring; keep a "friendly, open facial expression"; "nod your head to show approval and consent"; avoid...