Word: teach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems obvious that if the junior faculty will be doing less teaching, the senior faculty should teach more. But that isn't clear in the dean's plan. We call on him and the faculty to specify a new policy toward teaching as clearly as they have flushed out other aspects of the plan...
...Model Congress' primary goal is to teach students about "American legislature: how it works, why it works, and what its limitations are," said Alan L. Crane '86. Crane, along with Neil B. Morganbesser '86, is co-president of the Harvard Model Congress...
...parable of Imelda's shoes has something to teach. She could never wear them all. Nor could the Marcos family, one suspects, manage to spend the billions of dollars they plundered from the Philippines. As easily could Khedive Ismail labor through his harem of 3,000 women. (It is perhaps just as well that Ismail's champagne overdose spared him the exhaustion of trying to scale that particular Everest...
...women's studies and another field, the committee has not been given any additional tenure positions. Instead it is to draw on the faculty of other departments. This set-up is problematic because of the tenuous status of junior faculty at Harvard--the very faculty who are likely to teach courses within the field...
Indeed, some of the delegates wasted no time getting into the spirit of things. Konstantin Petrov, from the Voroshilovgrad region, demanded, "Why not make a movie that will teach children about coal mining? I can remember only one good book about coal miners, and that was written 30 years ago." Delegates were not surprised to learn that Petrov was a retired miner. Valentina Plenova, 55, a spunky factory worker, took the floor to complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with...