Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasing responsibility placed on students has reached the point where those who pay to attend the University as well as those paid to teach here are looking for ways to reduce the financial pressure on students. Attention quickly focuses on endowment. If it is so large, many wonder, why must students bear the brunt of inflation and why must Harvard raise $250 million in its five-year campaign? The answer harkens back to Cabot's "striking-a-balance" philosophy...
...group of cases, however, the lines have become reasonably clear. This category consists of situations in which donors seek to attach conditions to their gifts that invade what Justice Frankfurter once termed the "four essential freedoms of the university"--"to determine for itself on academic grounds who may teach, what may be taught, how it shall be taught, and who may be admitted to study...
...long run. Lazar hopes to attack some of these deeper problems: besides practical work--improving curriculum, trying to farm out university graduates to teach instead of local people, arranging school-to-school transfers for students--Lazar will spend about a year writing a paper on the school system. to be used in political lobbying for more funding...
...cailing has persisted. Next year, Smith will use a Rockefeller fellowship to travel to Sikkim, a tiny nation north of India, where he will teach science and mathematics to local schoolchildren. "It's a small school, akin to our little red school house," Smith says. He will live isolated in the rural countryside, without heat or hot water...
Pope, who will teach a course on female saints and Maryology in the 19th century, said she is looking forward to working at Harvard because there are excellent divinity libraries both here and elsewhere in Boston and because the appointment will allow dialogue with other women scholars...