Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper, which is funded entirely by advertisers, also aims to explain changes in extracurricular life at Harvard to students, faculty and administrators, Lacovara said...
...Eric Carter 4 1-5 .200 0-0 .0002-7 .286 4 0 4 1.0 Ian Smith 4 2-3 .667 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 7 3 4 1.0 Brian Mackey 4 1-4 .250 0-0 .0000-0 .000 5 2 2 0.5 HARVARD 7 181-459 .394 26-84 . 310 120-188 .638 294 108 50872.6 Opponents...
...Wednesday, December 6 front page story on science enrollment falling, you cite the fact that Harvard has been boosting acceptance of high school students interested in science to about 40-50 percent of the class in the past few years. Nevertheless, there are 1253 upperclassmen concentrating in sciences, 25 percent of the upperclass population. Obviously, a very large portion of these students changed their mind, and the only difference between the students who have chosen their concentrations and those entering the University, the difference that may make the decision, is a year's experience in Harvard courses...
...their students with little concern for the outcome. If the University wants people to enjoy and become interested in the sciences, there need to be more teachers hired with quality teaching skills and an ability to communicate their excitement with the subject matter. TF's and CA's at Harvard almost always know their subject thoroughly and are talented thinkers, but a student is just as likely to have one skilled in teaching as having an incoherent one, so that it seems that teaching ability is not even a criteria in selecting section leaders...
...wrong in thinking the solution can be found entirely in the former. The statistics in are article speak strongly: already around 40 percent of the student body has entered with a strong interest in the sciences--at a liberal arts college--and the students are talented as well. Harvard's winning the Putnam National Math Contest for the fourth straight year is just one example of the superior potential in the student body for sciences. So there is already a large number of undergraduates to work with who have a strong scientific skills and interests, but they are leaving...