Word: ec
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...years ever got surprised at the sight of an incredibly long line outside Sever on the day of registration, they soon accustomed themselves to this normal phenomenon outside the Union. The right time to pick to have a taste is one o'clock on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, when Ec 10 lecture is just over. Imagine standing out there in the cold, in the rain, in the snow for 30 minutes, only to get in and be told to "come again for a second plate...
...Hydes dealing with concentrators, but turn into Dr. Jekylls when dealing with "Core-ers." They know clearly that they are out there to propound modes, not depth, of thinking. They care about your grades more than you do. A very good example would be the No. 1 core, Ec 10, where Pareto efficiency is reached by a neat "unit test" system -- if you spend twenty minutes passing those extremely easy tests, your final grade of B+ becomes an A-; if you don't, well, come try again. If you still don't make...
Throughout his nine years teaching "Ec 10," Professor Martin Feldstein, who may well call this paradox a typical "trade-off," has seldom known what is going on down there in the 900-strong audience when he was standing in the dim light on the stage of Sanders Theatre...
...that, far from being weekly episodes of narcissistic introspection, they are workshops in which more time is spent reading and considering the work of others than in presenting one's own work. We who take creative classes are probably a lot more outward-looking than some single-minded Ec concentrators, because we are constantly confronted with the lives and experiences of our classmates. In an institution where making the grade is often top priority, these classes provide a welcome respite. They are fully as educational as any other course taught at Harvard. Rascoff seems to have limited his research...
...need to bring religion back into the handsof the people (Intellectual History). We needpalpable gods who are not afraid to jump into thefray, that are physically present in our time ofneed (Heroes). Basically we need to equilibratesupply and demand in a spiritual free market thatwould make Marty Feldstein proud (Ec 10). WhatHarvard in particular needs is the Lord of theEarth, the active god of storm and fertility, thecreator of mankind: Baal...