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...center point with the ability to draw people together.”William W. Carter ’84, a fellow banjo player who lived down the hall from Brown in Hurlbut, said that he had heard of Alison’s talent just days into freshmen week, and when they finally met, the two immediately took advantage of each other’s musical prowess.Young recalls their jam sessions reverberating through the dorm stairwell until three or four in the morning. Carter and Brown eventually started a band of their own that they called “Crimson Bluegrass...
...Evolutionary Tree,” comes out next 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...
...degrees to merely “signal” skills or ability to employers, with actual learning taking place on the job. It was therefore reassuring to talk to an experienced professor recently who told me about his first experience of teaching a freshman seminar. Prior to teaching freshmen, he only worked with upperclassmen and his new teaching assignment allowed him to realize one thing. Apparently, we may be more enthusiastic as freshman, but our thinking and writing leaves a lot to be desired. Somehow, by the time we reach our senior year, we mature in both respects, he said...
...really helpful, back when it was legal, that the college could officially be there when freshmen were drinking, to keep an eye on them,” Epstein said...
...we’re operating within an intellectual structure that took shape more than a century ago. It’s a worthy and venerable old edifice, but definitely getting a bit creaky. The oddity of departmental existence struck me forcefully this year as I watched my three freshmen advisees grapple with the tough question of concentration choice. Some students, upon comparing their academic inclinations with the concentration offerings, are able to slide easily into a field. But others cannot, because the fit doesn’t seem right...