Word: teaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retirement men die. They inherit money. They get tired. Or they are offered more attractive positions elsewhere.... Whenever under the new policy an intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee in his Department ceases to teach prior to retirement, the University will have been unnecessarily damaged.... But the present policy results in automatic dismissal of actual teachers of known value in favor of hypothetical teachers of unknowable value. Surely it is possible to frame a policy less blind and accidental in its operation. The solution lies...
Instead of bringing someone from outside Harvard to lecture on parties, as now seems intended, the Department should indulge in a little judicious juggling of present assignments. In this way Mr. Herring could be freed to teach Government 12 once again...
Behind the confusion the issues are clear. More full professorships are financially impossible under the present budget, and creating them would not solve the teach-tutor problem. More associate professorships can be paid for out of current income, and they will answer undergraduate needs. The Government Department can be revived if the right smelling-salts are chosen...
...will probably teach Government 36, which is on State, Local, and Municipal Government, as well as a graduate course on public administration. Both these courses were given last year by Fritz Morstein Marx, then an assistant professor and now on the faculty of Queens College in New York...
...comment upon the letter of Professor J. A. McLaughlin appearing in your columns today? It annoys me from several points of view. Isn't it the boast of Harvard's staff that "we teach our students to think for themselves"? Then why be snippy when actually...