Word: problems
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Before we write off the Core entirely, we must credit it with one accomplishment: focusing the attention of secondary schools across the country on the problem of undergraduate education. Rosovsky's offer to Core professors of semester leaves and course development funds--plus the ego gratification of participating in an educational "revolution"--provide Faculty a needed incentive to concern themselves with those who pay their salaries--the students...
DESCENDING TO THE bottom of the ivory-tower hierarchy, we meet the more tractable problem of coordinating sections in large lecture courses. The ever-dwindling availability of graduate students makes it more essential than ever that departments take responsibility for training their teaching fellows, may of whom may be familiar with only a fragment of the course material...
...more immediately, Commoner's campaign faces the more concrete problem of getting his name on the ballot in as many states as possible...
Many concentrators say that the sophomore tutorials in the department tend to be weak, adding that too many unmotivated students drag down sections and discussions. "We're aware of these potential problems in the sophomore tutorials," Judd says. "The dilemma is trying to achieve two goals at once. For one thing, we think it's important to have house-based tutorials. On the other hand, the problem is trying to find something that the tutor can teach that will be interesting to all the students...
Moments before the Harvard netmen boarded the bus for yesterday's trek to Providence, R.I. and Brown University, co-captain Bob Horne talked about what would be the squad's biggest problem that afternoon...