Word: column
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peer undergraduate grading of subjective work, a practice which occurs at Harvard College (see my column of two weeks ago), is indicative of a larger problem with the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard: Due to the small number of Faculty member and qualified teaching fellows relative to the number of students, finding quality instruction at Harvard College is not guaranteed. Instead, it is a task. Some students perform it very well, but for the many others who do not, a tradition of excellence--and not excellence itself--may be what they're getting for their money...
Daniel M. Suleiman '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...brought to my attention recently by a reader of this column that not once in the 18 months I've been doing this have I written about the World Wide Web--never. Perhaps it's because I spend so much time there that I don't consider it special. After all, you don't see folks writing about the new and exciting world of paved roads or mail delivery, do you? That stuff...
...this column is devoted to the wonderful World Wide Web. Where did it come from? Where did it go? Where did it come from, cotton-eyed...
First, multimedia. As I write this column, I'm listening to a streaming audio version of a Raekwon album I found at www.broadcast.com. With products such as RealPlayer, people can listen to radio stations and watch television programming across the world with steadily improving quality. Yes, you too can listen to KOKL in bustling Okmulgee, Oklahoma...