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Academic classes were coed and met in Harvard buildings. Most courses consisted of two lectures and one section meeting each week. The entire class would gather for each lecture but the class would be divided into sections of approximately fifteen people each for discussion. The lectures would be given by a noted professor, the section meetings by a teaching fellow. Having come from a single-sex school, I relished the exchanges between men and women in the section meetings. With a dynamic professor like Sam Beer, for example, who challenged superficial notions of Nietzsche or Locke in his Social Sciences...

Author: By Connaught O’CONNELL Mahony, CLASS OF 1952 | Title: Jolly-Ups and a 'New Look' at Radcliffe | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...first became acquainted when Fifteen Minutes (FM), the weekend magazine of The Crimson, profiled them in an article about fashion that ran last November. Each of them commented on various aspects of the other’s sense of style...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Members Honored for Teaching | 5/22/2002 | See Source »

...Fifteen studies—conducted by Associate Professor Xiping Xu, Professor David C. Christiani and Cobb Professor of Psychiatry Ming T. Tsuang—were cited for violations...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Apologizes For Research in China | 5/17/2002 | See Source »

...celebrating roommates and blockmates, boyfriends and professors and everyone else who made life at Harvard so darn fun and interesting and fabulous (’cause it’s what you learn outside the classroom that counts, right?) There are the awful, predictable theme columns—Fifteen Lessons Harvard Has Taught Me, or Sixty-Eight Life-Changing Things to Do Before You Graduate. And then there are the weirdly angry columns that crop up from time to time—How Harvard Does Women/Blacks/Conservatives/Me Wrong, Why I Hate Everyone Here and so forth...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Final Column | 5/17/2002 | See Source »

...separatist group ETA gave advance warning of a car bomb that exploded near a Madrid stadium shortly before a European Champions' League football match. The attack came a day after police said they had dismantled ETA's international financial network with the arrest of 11 Batasuna Party activists. Fifteen people were slightly injured in the blast, but the match kicked off on schedule, allowing Real Madrid to qualify over Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 5/5/2002 | See Source »

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