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...said. “He wound up a little short, but he is so talented, and so poised and confident, that he’s able to perform under any circumstance. He’s just a winner, and has some intangible qualities that you can’t teach.” “There’s anywhere from 15 to 20 thousand fans there,” O’Connor said of the tournament atmosphere. “To see all the effort put into the season culminate in that one tournament is truly amazing...
...that I have had a few stellar TFs who even managed to run a half-decent section, usually in the English department. Not only do English TFs usually speak intelligible—even eloquent—English, they also seem to have a genuine passion for the literature they teach, much of which is pretty boring...
...understand that professors are busy. They have research to conduct, classes to teach, students to advise, and lives beyond Harvard to lead. Nonetheless, the Faculty’s unwillingness to spend 90 minutes discussing how to improve pedagogy—an issue that is central to Harvard’s mission—is a disappointment...
...solidify that image in the eyes of HMS doctors for years to come. HMS currently budgets $8 million per year to pay its 7,000 Harvard-affiliated doctors. Unlike most medical schools across the country, Harvard does not run its own hospital; instead, HMS maintains relationships with teaching hospitals, which provide doctors-cum-instructors on a good will system. Although “7,000 Harvard-affiliated doctors” may seem unexpectedly large since HMS has 771 students in its MD program, each doctor is only expected to teach for 50 hours per semester, and those quotas are unmonitored...
While many of her classmates gravitated to Wall Street upon graduation, Emily L. Nielson ’04 decided to head to the impoverished border town of Roma, Texas. Now, as a Teach for America corps member, she is bringing a group of 15 promising students from her high school back to her alma mater to stoke their educational ambitions. In the week since their arrival last Saturday, the students will visit MIT, Wellesley, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, and Northeastern as well as Harvard. Nielson said she chose those universities because she wanted to expose them to selective colleges...