Word: curiosityã
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...administrators encourage some spontaneity in course selection— “we want freshmen to find courses that ignite their intellectual curiosity??—but there are incentives to plan ahead. Harvard’s “secondary fields,” or minors, typically require five to six classes, and foreign language citations require at least four courses past the introductory level. If you’re pre-med, there goes another swath of courses. Your concentration will likely require 12 to 16 classes as well...
...medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that the paper provides “new biological clues.” Co-author Christopher J. O’Donnell, an HMS associate clinical professor, began collecting genetic data 10 years ago. He said that he was “prompted by curiosity?? about the specific causes of heart attacks, adding that when he began there was no strong evidence for any specific gene association with heart attacks. The information from O’Donnell’s previous research, as well as data from six other labs, was compiled into...
...believe one of the birds surfaced—stuffed—in the collection of John Tradescant Sr., the former royal gardener to King Charles I. Tradescant Sr. continued to collect exotic plants and birds, helping to spawn England’s 17th-century “Cabinet of Curiosity?? movement, a craze that would endure well into the Victorian era, and later propel Harvard’s faux dodo into existence.Tradescent Sr. willed his collection to his son. By then the menagerie of oddities had grown so large that the son hired a curator and former attorney...
Survey respondents called for a president who has “been a student on many levels” and strongly values “intellectual curiosity?? and “humility.” Students, according to the report, also said that they wanted a president who takes risks but fosters collaboration...
...been waiting to go back-to-back for four years now.” The year wasn’t perfect, of course. Brunnig’s ERA finally settled at 5.88, for one. But for a pitcher whose potential originated in part due to a curiosity??whose career has been more frustratingly inconsistent than anything—he put it together in his senior year like never before. “I’m real proud of him,” Castellanos said. “He’s worked real hard, through...