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Instead, the best measures Harvard could take to ensure that TFs can teach is to evaluate them before they are hired and to provide them with better training before they have their first class. At a minimum, candidates who are not native English speakers should be required to posess sufficient proficiency in spoken English to communicate effectively with a room full of anxious undergraduates. At the best university in the world, it is simply unacceptable that some TFs are put into the classroom with only rudimentary English communication skills...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Making TFs Into Teachers | 11/20/2001 | See Source »

...examples of the institutionalized mix of truth and falsehood we all encounter and produce in forms like college applications. Clay's and his classmates' contributions to their alumni reports and their children's application essays to Princeton are minor works of literature compared to Pope and Dryden, but they posess a clumsy eloquence and--to their creators--are infinitely more important than some long-forgotten poem...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ceremonies of Exclusivity, Timeless Literary Questions | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...responsible and God-fearing parents should withdraw their children from Harvard. Students who posess moral convictions should also consider withdrawing in protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School of Sin | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

This morning test supervisors will allow all students to take the test who posess admissions tickets; have their name and registration number listed on the test center roster; have received mailgrams, letters or telegrams from ETS they may use in lieu of admissions tickets; can give the supervisor their official registration numbers; or sign up in walk-in registration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Won't Need Tickets For LSAT | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...Incarnatus section to the final choruses, the performance gathered power and assurance. The Confiteor section provided outstanding examples of subtle, directional phrasing. The male solos were similarly convincing. Tenor Frank Hoffmeister and Bass David Evitts showed clearly why they are two of the busiest free-lancers around. They both posess a rich and confident tone, accurate intonation and the kind of innate musicality that makes satisfying performances a matter of course...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Mixed Mass | 4/22/1975 | See Source »

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