Word: class
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lead professor for Science A-17a, "Astronomical Perspectives," Gingerich expanded his class to 230 students after anticipating 150 enrollees...
...another Science A offering, Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science MichaelMcElroy raised his class limit from 100 studentsto...
BOSTON--A majority of first-year college students consider their bachelor's degree a step toward graduate school, while education rivals business as a job goal, according to a newspaper survey of 900 students in the Class of 1993 at New England colleges...
...visit two schools, one near Guangzhou, the other in Beijing. At both places, two teachers handle a class of approximately 40 four-year-olds. Instructive slogans adorn the walls: THE NAIL THAT STICKS OUT GETS HAMMERED DOWN and THE LONG POLE GETS SAWED OFF. Creativity, experimentation, even simple play are discouraged. Handed blocks, the children erect structures pictured in workbooks; once completed, the buildings are torn down and put up again and again until the time allotted for block-building expires. And "No talking, while you're building," a teacher scolds. Or while you're eating, for that matter...
They're not bestsellers. They're probably not even on class reading lists. But for students searching for the perfect cure for overwork and exhaustion on a Friday afternoon, the Harvard Library System's monthly booksale of discards might be the answer...