Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edition contains essays by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 on the house lottery, Dean of First-Year Students Henry C. Moses, and an interview with Associate Dean for International Affairs Joseph...
...newspaper] has been a priority for a while" for the dean's office, but staff and resources have only recently become available, said Assistant Dean of Students Ellen Hatfield Towne. The quarterly paper format grew out of a yearly College news edition published for incoming first-year students each summer, she said...
...Sunday, in his last act as president, Gustav Husak swore in a Cabinet whose members include people he had jailed or stripped of all but the most menial jobs. The new Cabinet gave the country its first government dominated by non-Communists since...
Czechoslovak army units yesterday began pulling down barbed wire fencing along a 20-mile stretch of its border with Austria. After the first stretch of the fence was cut away and rolled up, officials from both countries met on the open border near the Austrian town of Wullowitz to shake hands...
These problems may be even worse in upper-level courses--the courses that potential science stars take in their first year. It seems that there are even fewer quality teachers and interested professors in the higher level first-year courses and that the departments may be banking on the students' own interest to keep them learning and involved in the subject. Such an attitude would not be helpful when so many potential concentrators are dropping out. Indeed, many of the people I know who are science majors are in their science in spite of their experience with the department...