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...most enjoyable teaching I have done at Harvard, with the possible exception of teaching a small group of undergraduates Shakespeare. Joyce, Yeats and Robert Lowell. In a 1973 article in the Harvard Law School Bulletin I described the joys of dealing with students on an intimate basis in may year-long Dunster House course on constitutional...
Rather than focusing attention on the ACSR, saving protests for the spring to respond to ACSR votes, protest should be a year-long effort by the divestiture movement. Students should lobby the University's most influential body-the alumni. The focus of the divestiture movement must spread to encompass students and faculty at the graduate schools. Radcliffe students should protest that school's investment policy in companies that do business in South Africa, in hope that Radcliffe can set an example for Harvard...
...another year-long sophomore course my son was subjected to a graduate student who ran the whole course, evidently without the least bit of supervision. Only once during the first semester did this woman trouble herself with writing out paper assignments. And when they were written out, they followed the format I have just described. This graduate student liked to deliver paper topics orally, always at the last minute, so that she had plenty of opportunity to complain afterwards about how the students "really didn't do the assignment" or "focus" in their writing. Of course no one "really" knew...
Suleiman says she will travel to Paris to maintain these contacts during the second half of her year-long sabbatica, which began this week. The main project of her leave of absence will be a book tentatively titled The Problems of Avant Garde Writing. The work is intended to complement her last book Authoritarian Fictions, which analyzed the political and ideological "message" novels against which the avant-gardists are rebelling...
Lured back to Harvard in 1981, Suleiman taught literary theory and a year-long course on 20th century French fiction. The latter, French 132a, "The Realist Mode," and French 132b. "The Experimental Mode," are highly praised by students. According to class members. Suleiman graded and wrote comments on all 60 students' papers, and took the trouble to learn everyone's name. "She is extremely friendly--very approachable," says one student, Elizabeth E. Porter...