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President Clinton, speaking at a fundraiser in Boston Tuesday, wisely spent much of the afternoon pitching his plan to improve the quality of the nation's public schools. The proposals, which would spend an extra $4.98 billion on a variety of teacher training and class-size reduction initiatives from his...
Conference Marketing Director Melissa Grigorieff, a second-year MBA student, said WSA's emphasis on outreach, to the media and to area schools, was also responsible for the record crowd.
"The department places an emphasis on criticism and theory in the study of literature, but after two years as a concentrator I realized that I didn't share this view," she says. "I've learned a tremendous amount in my English classes, but when I read a novel or a...
"I think there was an emphasis [at those meetings] that we don't need to be writing them, which could be interpreted as discouragement," says L. Andrew Cooper '99, who is writing a thesis on literary theory. "I think that they are discouraging people from feeling like they have to...
Honest immersion in one's studies, of the type which writing a good thesis demands, for example, is a pipe dream both during the semester and during reading period, in large part because it is not the objective of college to inspire such focus. The raw amount of reading, writing...