Word: chem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to assume that everyone's going to take a single magical cluster of courses," Federman says. "We want to develop new courses to, is a sense, get around the Chem 20 bottleneck," says Verba...
...anyone who has taken Chem 10 can attest to, Bok's condemnation of the, premed syndrome and pressure is the most welcome to undergraduates, especially those who are interested in pursuing a career in medicine. There is talk right now of revising premed requirements so as all can be completed in two full-year courses. There is concern over the quasi-dictatorial hold medical school admissions committees hold over premed course selection...
...rest of the weekly fact sheet listed items such as a lice outbreak in Hollis, incorrect Chem 10 grades, intramural mud wrestling and a University Health Services seminar on "Sexual Techniques...
March 10--Meselson, after weeks of poring over snow samples, declares that the source of the coloration is not a Harvard chem lab at all but The Corn Popper on Mt. Auburn St., whose "secret process" for flavoring popcorn strawberry, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring into the atmosphere. In developing a new line, "We got a little out of control, I guess," apologizes the store owner...
...Tests measure much more directly a quality the student has even less control over: the quality of the high school curriculum. A student at a mediocre high school may have little chance of scoring well on the verbal SAT, but is he really any more likely to ace the Chem Achievement? Ironically, the fact that Achievements predict freshman grade point averages better than SATs do reflects this very imbalance. Obviously the best-prepared high school seniors will start out with the highest grades, but, as the admissions office constantly points out, there are more important goals than assembling a class...