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...month, according to his father Joseph O. Losos ’52. Though to the public Jonathan Losos may be known only as an evolutionary biology rock star, students applaud his calm temperament and commitment: four years ago, he took his freshmen seminar students on an all-expense-paid field study to Puerto Rico, where he was dubbed “Indiana Jones” after sporting a wide brimmed hat and rolling under beds to catch loose specimens.And though he has not taken a traditional career path—he once considered applying to law school—family...
...this and they should therefore be welcomed as a valuable tool for literacy education. We might have liked to see a similar generational medium enthuse math education in America as we lamented the dismal perception of the subject among America’s youth, and hoped that the field might become more popular and valued in our culture. The U.S. has shamefully low standards for math education, but more widespread introduction of fun math extracurricular activities and more rigorous math curriculums might change this...
...After our years here, many of us actually take solace in the Socrates maxim: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” In writing a 147-page thesis, I still barely scratched the surface of my field of study. Yet the very fact that I realize this is oddly comforting: Perhaps this place has taught me well...
...says that most of her classes were with men. Though she says the courses were coeducational, there were subtle gender barriers that ultimately convinced her to leave the concentration for the English department.Sabath says her music teachers periodically discouraged her from pursuing a career in music, claiming that the field was not appropriate for women.Yet she claims that even faced with such treatment, women’s issues were not on her mind when she was at Radcliffe.“At Radcliffe, I didn’t have these feelings, and I’m not sure anyone else...
...residents also noted the appeal of elevators, modern facilities, and individual bedrooms for each occupant, citing these incentives as a draw from the vibrant culture of the existing Houses. “It wasn’t laden with ghosts of years past,” said John O. Field ’62. “One could imagine 19 year-old fellows thinking ‘this is better than some musky old attic in some other house.’” In addition to its cutting edge architecture, residents recalled the novelty of the House?...