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From the University’s perspective, undergraduate attitudes toward education might seem like something outside its control. But the University is in a strong position to affect these attitudes. Exalting student extracurricular involvement, as the Dean of the College does, inevitably creates competition between academic and extracurricular obligations. Courses that place too much emphasis on a single final examination invite students to spend all their time studying to, rather than for, the test. A House system with no academic significance, save for “tutors” that exist only in name, creates distance between our residential...
...point is not to push for a specific academic reform, but to remind the University that structural reforms to undergraduate education are not ends in themselves. Hiring more Faculty may lead to smaller class sizes, but smaller class sizes won’t mean anything unless they can significantly affect undergraduate attitudes for the better. The freshman seminar program is valuable not because the classes are small, but because it is a rare opportunity for first-years to develop and discover academic interests, free from grade or exam worries...
...students say that being allowed to vote would give them a voice in City Council and School Committee decisions that directly affect them...
February 10, 1973: Harvard’s administration assuages fears that the energy crisis gripping the northeast will affect the University. The University is heated by waste steam created by the Cambridge Electric plant...
...nuns in Snowdon's study appear to have lived relatively stress-free lives--no mortgages, doctors' bills, credit-card payments or children to worry about. I am curious to learn how stress will affect us aging baby boomers. Many of us have characteristics of the nuns that were mentioned in the article, such as higher education, intellectual endeavors and good nutrition. But no generation can escape negativity, and keeping a positive outlook is very difficult at times. The concerns of two jobs per household, escalating prices and other pressures of day-to-day living--it would be interesting to know...