Word: teaching
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...perhaps, not quite as blatant as those she has described. I have seen graduate students hurriedly preparing for tutorial meetings (tutorials which are often the only exposure an undergraduate will have to intensive training in his major field) no more than one half an hour before they have to teach. Even more shocking is the graduate student who announces that he never bothers to read the books for the course in which he has been given the responsibility to grade papers. He will just read the exams, he assures a friend, and give an "A" to those who "sound intelligent...
Little seems to slow Gould down, but the discovery of cancer in July 1982 forced him to curtail his hectic pace. Nevertheless, throughout his year-and-a-half bout with cancer, he has continued to teach courses and work on his pet project, studying and cataloguing the characteristics of the Cerion, a Bahamas land snail...
...part of the next season she competed wearing a specially built high ski boot to support the bad leg. Both her father, a psychologist, and her mother teach skiing part time, and she has always skied, but at Garfield High School in Seattle she was also an M.V.P. for two years in soccer and basketball. Her bubbly nature is infectious; Cooper said later, "I was behind her in the starting area, and I heard her saying to herself, 'O.K., Deb, just have a good time, have a good time, have the run of your life.' And then...
...limitation of the Science Center complex for student use were brought home forcefully last spring when instructors of Applied Mathematics 110--now Computer Science 150--decided to teach the course in a more complex language. The change overtaxed the system and forced students to wait up to 10 hours to log onto the system...
...made to preside over so much of the undergraduate education at Harvard ought to be asked by responsible academic administrators to reform. Many are perhaps competent. But how can we tell unless they take the time to plan their work carefully; unless they read the material they teach with intelligence, so that they themselves can contribute something, instead of pushing off their work onto students most of the time; and unless they grade papers and examinations with a deliberation uninterrupted by the commerce of Cambridge merchants and their own eccentricities? A. Harvard Parent...