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Admissions officers also take notice when familiar passages from well-known pieces published in essay books appear in applicants’ essays, or when essays contain writing that doesn’t seem to match the rest of the student’s profile, Fitzsimmons added...
...letter said. The annual cost of readings for the average student has reached $1,300, which amounts to $8.5 million collectively spent each year on course readings, according to the two-page letter. Gross and Knowles suggested two ways that faculty members can help “contain and even reduce students’ book expenses.” The first is to make reading selections known earlier in the year so that students can have the opportunity to shop for books early and to sell their books back to the Coop. The second suggestion called on professors to utilize...
...very small children don't just seem prosaic because tikes lack the eloquence to bring them to life in the retelling-they really are prosaic. Two-thirds of dreams are almost exclusively visual, a quarter feature sound and a smaller fraction smell and taste. Nine out of 10 contain emotion, most commonly mild anxiety or frustration. Our dreams tend not to be reproductions of past events but rather, according to research led by Tore Nielsen, director of the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at Sacr?-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, reinterpretations of events that happened at two distinct time periods: yesterday and about...
...become the home of art books displaced by the renovation of the Fogg Museum. Many of the staff and services now located in Littauer will move to the first floor of Lamont Library, which will undergo renovation this summer to accommodate the change. Littauer’s holdings, which contain materials on economics and government as well as many historical labor papers, will mostly be placed in the off-campus Harvard Depository.Littauer, which until now held much of Harvard’s social science collection, consists of a sparsely populated reading room and two dark, low-ceilinged levels of subterranean...
...growing number of complaints about sick and dying animals who ate only dry food, which typically does not contain wheat gluten, is another reason some authorities question whether melamine is the real culprit. Bruce Friedrich, Vice President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged the FDA to test for excessive levels of vitamin D; last year a manufacturing error led to too much of the vitamin in Royal Canin pet food, causing kidney failure and death in several animals. But Goldstein says excessive vitamin D is unlikely, since blood tests would show high calcium levels, which...