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...seriousness, Harvard clearly has some work to do in decreasing class size. Large classes do tend to foster an impersonal learning environment, make it difficult for students to interact with professors and generally detract from an undergraduate education. The administration might start by phasing out the Core and replacing it with distribution requirements. This would widen the number of offerings available to students to fill any single requirement, diminishing class size in the process...
...also didn't hurt that the team went to the NCAA Final Four that season, and even though the team struggled the last two years, that didn't detract from...
Although we were dismayed that the statement failed to mention the violence that followed the suicide bombings, we believed that this omission could be remedied. In the spirit of cooperation, the Harvard Islamic Society proposed some simple ammendments that would not detract from the focus of the statement, which was to condemn terrorism, especially the recent events in the Middle East. Our proposed additions consisted of briefly mentioning the subsequent violence against innocent Palestinians...
This sort of historical hedging would only detract from the honor due the true Southern heroes: those who resisted the pressure from their families, refused to succumb to regionalism and were prevailed upon by their sense of justice to stand up for a higher principle--that of freedom through Union...
Hope for the future, of course, does not detract from the here and now. The Black and White will enter postseason play this weekend for the first time this decade...