Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later in the meeting, after residents had been assured of the immediate assingment of extra plaincloths policemen to the area, representatives of Boston Edison promised to install extra lights around Commonwealth Avenue, where the majority of the attacks to place. Special workshops were arranged to teach the area's women self-defense techniques, and police whistles were furnished...
...tutorial legislation--which would require every Faculty member to teach a minimum of one tutorial a term--makes "realistic" demands on the Faculty, Bowersock said on Tuesday. "The amount of time professors believe they will have to spend on tutorials is overdone," Bowersock added...
...people are so old when they get to be grandparents," laments Birdy. If Birdy is Wharton's grandchild, it was worth waiting for. Wharton has taught it to fly as well as any canary could teach its young...
...reasons for this decision--I mean the real ones, not the ones dished up for public consumption--have not yet seen the light of day. Because I do not teach the fiction course, I possess no special knowledge of these matters. But I have reason to believe that there may well be a very interesting story here: a story in which professional jealousy, personal vendetta, career ambition and craven capitulation to bureaucratic politics have combined to deny freshmen the one writing course they really want to take...
...Thomson said the basis of the difficulty lies in her fundamental philosophical difference with Marius over the role of a teacher. Thomson says she believes good teaching demands compassion toward students as well as detached criticism. "Marius major objection to fiction and the way we teach it is that we deal with emotion," she noted, and added Marius' decision reflects Harvard's reluctance to admit that good teaching involves caring about students...