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...need to work to support themselves must first get special work permits, but even with such a permit they cannot work more than 20 hours a week on an off-campus job (except during summer vacations). To retain their student visas they are also required to carry a full load of semester hours during their stay. Moreover, the permits, say the students, are hard to obtain...
...tradition. "The American Jew is integrated in American society," says Soloveitchik, "but we have another commitment too, a metaphysical commitment ? a covenant with God. We must burden the child with both commitments." Burden indeed: to accommodate the dual study load, the school day at Maimonides runs from...
...through a well-worn dictionary to put a German sentence together. By now Gulp can lecture adequately in German but still cannot handle the give-and-take of student questioning. So, like many of the Americans, he teaches only eight hours a week-one-third of the normal work load...
...Shklar leads another life which she has always refused to sacrifice to the full time teaching load which would have more readily gained her the status of professor. Her determination has won out: Harvard decided to make her a professor although she will continue to teach less than full time. Dr. Shklar's "other life" consists of a husband and three children, and confers upon her the equally appropriate title of Mrs. Shklar. As a credit to her own versatility and a well-balanced division of responsibilities at home, she fulfills her various roles to her own satisfaction, and--although...
...addition, it was during this period that the position of instructor was abolished. Instructors were junior faculty members who often carried much of the tutorial load: in effect the addition of teaching fellows was simply the replacement of badly paid instructors with worse-paid teaching fellows. Bearing these facts in mind, it is significant that the number of fifths has already begun to drop, and this at a time when Harvard's undergraduate enrollment is increasing. Does the Harvard administration regard House courses, tutorials, and other seminar-type courses as frill, to be cut at the first signs of 'financial...