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After graduation, McNamara plans to teach English in Mississippi for Teach for America. His said his plans beyond that are uncertain...
...other in the burdens that we carry. We were really trying to ensure that it was as inclusive as possible.” Next year, Cohen will move to Ghana where she will either intern with a lawyers’ group focused on advocacy for women and children or teach at a secondary school or university. —Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...Core Curriculum. It will be up to Smith and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, who will lead the General Education committee which is to implement the Review’s findings, to breathe life and coherence into the new curriculum.Furthermore, the Faculty repeatedly balked at making teaching evaluations mandatory for all courses. Far from creating a “Harvard version of RateMyProfessor.com,” as one professor claimed at a Faculty meeting, evaluations are a valuable tool for pedagogical improvement, without which teachers are essentially feedback-blind. Though few professors opt out of such evaluations...
Schlesinger came back to teach at Harvard in 1947, but his work—and his thoughts—never strayed far from Washington DC. He warned of the dangers posed by Stalinism and counseled Democratic candidates until he joined the John F. Kennedy’s administration as an adviser (his work was expansive and never clearly defined). He won his second Pulitzer Prize—the first had come in 1946 for “The Age of Jackson”—for the biographical “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy...
...what is important in the world, and a heightened appreciation of the mystery, splendor—and as on Lake Quinsigamond—disappointment inherent in life’s unfolding. I’m pretty sure that this isn’t what Harvard set out to teach me, and I know that it isn’t what I set out to learn when I first arrived here. And yet it remains a lesson for which I am intensely grateful, and it is what I take away today...