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...very hard to get an `A' in that class," Cox says. "If the class ever had that [gut] reputation, it certainly won't after [last spring...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Harvard Guts: More Than You've Bargained For? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

Another reputed sure-fire gut is the over-crowded spring course, Science B-29: "Human Behavioral Biology," affectionately called "Sex." But here again, the professors claim their course has gotten...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Harvard Guts: More Than You've Bargained For? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...word `gut' is definitely a misnomer," says co-professor Terrence W. Deacon, an associate professor of Anthropology. "If you read the Confi and CUE guides, people always complain that the course wasn't like it was advertised...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Harvard Guts: More Than You've Bargained For? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...think its reputation as a gut is a double-edged sword," Deacon said. "It creates a lot of confusion for people from the humanities who come in and realize that they're actually going to have to do science...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Harvard Guts: More Than You've Bargained For? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...class, the desire to escape a gut reputation has led the professor to put the course on hold while he rethinks the course material and prepares a textbook to be used in 1992. Indeed, Bussey Professor of Biology Otto T. Solbrig was so upset when Science B-38: "Plants and Biological Principles in Human Affairs," became a popular gut that he may take it out of the Core...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Harvard Guts: More Than You've Bargained For? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

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