Word: tf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Lewis Carroll's ubiquitous Cheshire Cat, the teaching fellow (TF) appears everywhere--in the laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms, libraries and house--available for assistance, advice, instruction and recommendations. The TF is the intermediary between the undergraduate and a harried junior and aloof senior faculty; the TF is the basic source of personalized instruction standing between the much touted 6:1 student-faculty ratio and the unmentionable $3200 yearly tuiton...
Like the Cheshire Cat, the teaching fellow may now dematerialize. Asking for more work in less time, the University has placed the TF in the position of trying to study and launch his or her career while aiding Harvard substantially in the interim. It is an untenable position whose costs must be borne somewhere...
...cops were worried. What if the crew had been working for the Knapp Commission? One cop put in a call to Burkert. The cop suggested that, if they had been trapped, Burkert should say he had borrowed the money the night before and was only paying it back. Tf that did not work, Burkert might say: " 'Ah, Jeez, I was counting my own money, that's all. Jeez, I might have leaned my hand into the patrol car.' I mean you can say anything...
...president twice made reference to the need for teaching fellows better trained in the skills of teaching itself. Bok said over 90 per cent of TF's at Harvard receive no formal training for or evaluation of their teaching chores. He suggested that departments should offer basic courses in teaching skills to their graduate students, and that senior Faculty members should meet weekly with their course staffs. Later he reminded department chairman that the Faculty rules for appointments require "qualifications for both teaching and research...
Those charging war crimes-an impressively wide range of individuals-have a solid case, with facts, legal documents, and points logically argued. Can the sages from Littauer offer anything in Huntington's defense other than rank-pulling, some unctuous murmurings about "slander" and "intimidation," and their 29 famous names?TF, Romance Languages