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...years at Harvard, James Freeman Clarke, Class of 1829, recalled with no little ire that the Faculty subjected the students to a daily drilling in which "no attempt was made to interest us in our studies." The new century brought a fresh crop of (apparently) benighted undergraduates, and as late as 1963 yet another committee of Overseers to study Harvard’s teaching fellow program had unearthed "a considerable amount of uninspired, inexperienced, and weak teaching...
...years past, last September heralded a new crop of eager freshmen, short-lived enthusiasm for classes, and the renewed antics of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). SLAM’s unceasing demand for more—higher wages, more vacation time, and, above all, stronger unions—may resonate with the new Democratic Congress’ agenda, but unions, like any other cartel, help their members only at the cost of the general public...
...growing numbers, Afghans are succumbing to the dangers of their nation's largest cash crop. "Cultivation overshadows everything here, but for Afghans, drug abuse has also become a big problem," says Elizabeth Bayer, formerly of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Afghanistan...
...Harvard—those are the cream of the crop teams right there,” Schuler said...
...last, a new crop of folding bicycles may be able to reunite me with my lost hobby. Considered toys or flimsy oddities just a decade ago, the latest generation of collapsibles--bikes that, thanks to a few strategic hinges and latches, can pretzel themselves down to the size of a suitcase--combines hipness and high function, not to mention the ability to fit easily into a closet. "I won't ride a standard bike anymore," says Channell Wasson of Foldabikes.com who has been selling folders for more than 15 years, and riding them even longer. "We call them cumbersomes...