Word: ec
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...first noticed the inscriptions during my sophomore fall, when I was on my way to what was to be a particularly uninspiring section for Ec 10. As I gazed out the window and absent-mindedly filled my notebook with supply and demand curves, I wondered whether it was part of former University President Charles W. Eliot’s (Class of 1853) plan when he thought of the inscriptions, that the gates would be locked at 7 P.M. every day, effectively hindering townies from growing in wisdom and freshmen from serving their country. I also wondered how much wisdom...
...socioeconomic diversity during his time at Harvard. Martin said that a diversity of backgrounds added to classroom discussion, where lower-income students could help illuminate the divide between the real world and the classroom. “There’s a difference between what you read in Ec 10 and what you experience,” he said. —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu...
...difficult to meld her differing interests together in a coherent way when she first arrived at Harvard.“When I first entered Harvard I was confused because I found different selves yearning to do more,” she says. “I took an Ec class and found the approach was intuitive. I loved my analytical self. There was the musical self too. And I enjoy poetry that brings out my creative self.”“I’ve spent four years at Harvard trying to reconcile all my different selves...
...maybe there is no room left in the Houses. But why not let transfers simply find their own off-campus housing and then come to class? Judging from the attendance of Ec-10 lecture, there’s certainly no shortage of classroom seats...
...teaching Ec 1010b this spring knows how to put macroeconomic principles into action...