Word: aspects
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...hopes were to do whatever we could to optimize that process so TFs could focus their time more on the teaching aspect rather than the minutia of adding or subtracting points,” Malan said. “Tablet PCs struck us as a wonderful opportunity technologically to chip away at what is otherwise a fairly laborious process...
...time to develop. Entering his freshman year competing for the Crimson, Schreck discovered he had a lot to learn. “Collegiate rowing is a totally different world from high school rowing in a number of different respects,” Schreck observed. “The mental aspect, the training, the racing, everything is just a level up in intensity.”Despite the adjustment period, Schreck has learned much—and thrived—under Parker’s tutelage. Since rowing in the second freshman eight, Schreck has worked his way up. Last season...
...purview of specialists, that was not always the case.For more than a generation before 1950, Harvard offered two distinct degrees to its graduating seniors. The Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and the Bachelor of Science (S.B.) degrees were nearly identical in all of their requirements, aside from one crucial aspect: The more highly-coveted A.B. mandated an extra year’s study in Latin.And up until only recently, the classical languages of Latin and Greek formed the foundation for almost all of higher education. Most public high schools offered at least introductory instruction, and preparatory schools like Choate and Groton?...
...it’s foolish to put too much faith into a numerical ranking system.” McGrath said that rankings do not provide a perfect way for a student to choose the right college. In fact, they can be misleading. “One very important aspect of these upper colleges is that in a sense they are very incomparable,” McGrath said. “You can measure acreage, the size of a library, or student-faculty ratio, but you can’t measure some certain aspects of a college that will...
...nothing but redirect the deliberate inhalation of smoke that takes place at these bars elsewhere. The presence of cigar bars might even reduce the amount of secondhand smoke that nonsmokers are exposed to, since the alternative to smoking in bars is often smoking on the street. Perhaps the worst aspect of this invasion of personal liberty and responsibility is the Commission’s reasoning behind it. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the director of the Boston Public Health Commission, told the Boston Globe that her goal is to “de-normalize” smoking—a creepy...