Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nobel laureate for whom Harvard claims credit even though he didn't teach here when the award was made: Frederick C. Robbins, in 1954, who was cited for research conducted while he was a Harvard faculty member...
Herschbach said the New York Times coverage "looked very good." He felt that the publicity about his prize will teach people about how professors spend their time. "A lot of papers did emphasize my connection to Currier House and teaching. There's a need for people to understand that that's what professors...
...able to crack that it is a "core lite," he failed to offer any specific commentary. Yet the Core does have its pitfalls, foremost among them the fact that the undergraduates it serves, like their Secretary of Education, don't understand its foundation. The Core's mission to teach students how to think instead of what to think is a is a well-kept secret. That goal can hardly be reached when it is not even known...
...enough for an associate professor like Brinkley to teach classes so popular that every year a lottery is held to keep admission to 500 people, to write books which win prestigious prizes, and to brave the perils of dining hall food to lunch with students? Does an ambitious junior faculty member at Harvard have to be as old the institution itself in order to gain tenure there? Melanie Cohen...
...three rubles. One time, the truck driver whom I flagged was surprised by my request, since he saw a strapping young man near my car. When he was finished changing my tire and I offered him a three- ruble note, he said, "Don't bother, mother, but you should teach your kid a lesson. What's the matter with him, is he sick or something that he can't change a tire...