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...schools of small boats gave way to the majestic masters of the daylight hours, the 22 tall ships from 18 countries. The stately succession of tall ships was a graceful ambassador from a vanished, less hectic age. As a cool breeze billowed sails and spirits and Navy guns fired in salute, some spectators reacted with the quiet awe that is more commonly found in gazing at great cathedrals. "I feel like I'm watching history," said Julie Cook of Brookville, Pa. She was indeed...
...Exchange, some 40 million shares changed hands in the last minute of trading. But the movement in the Dow Jones industrial average was relatively anticlimactic. The Dow leaped 24 points, roughly half the amount it declined on one day a week earlier, to 1880. Market observers guessed that the hectic but comparatively unspectacular witching outcome meant that substantial profits had already been taken...
Liquor store merchants benefit as much as anyone else from the week's festivities. "It's a fairly hectic week with lots of parties," said Clifton M. Thuma '78, manager of Harvard Provision Company. Seniors begin "primarily with beer, vodka, ice, wine-coolers, and soda," said Thuma. "When Commencement week brings mom and dad in town, it's scotch, bourbon, and very good cognacs...
...skin and spirit at the tip of Long Island. Or the clear desert air of Arizona reinforces the sense of being cleansed. Whatever the surroundings, the wake-up call likely comes at 6 a.m., and after a breakfast that could be served in a thimble and saucer, the hectic dawn-to- dusk pace rivals anything ever dreamed up by a drill sergeant. "By the end of the day," declares Diane Sepler, 46, a Miami interior designer who is a happy devotee of such regimens, "I'm like a noodle...
Because it takes time to evaluate peers and communicate the results to students, the problem of feedback poses special problems in the hectic environment of a research university. Yet ingenuity may produce ways of improving feedback without requiring unreasonable amounts of faculty time. Greater efforts can be made to train graduate students to give more helpful, detailed comments on papers and exams. Professors can supply model answers or analyses of exam questions to explain the elements of a competent answer. Computers open up impressive opportunities for allowing students to test their comprehension of new and difficult material. These possibilities only...