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Speaking as one of more than 900 secondary school program students at Harvard this summer, I would like to express my surprise at the disrespect accorded us by other University students. Not only are we often looked upon as over-achieving, obnoxious high-school kids, but we are told we are only here for the summer and are therefore only pseudo-Harvard students. The other day, as I was walking past a tour group in front of the John Harvard statue. I heard the guard proclaim that the students seen around campus "were not real Harvard students" and that they...
Most members of the group had scarcely picked up a hammer before arriving at the work site. A pair of incredibly patient carpenters (one of them a high-school classmate of my father) supervised us, instructing us in the use of the tools and restraining their frustration as we bent hundreds and hundreds of nails...
...weed out any novices, thus assuring that only future professionals remain, and then tries to keep them from the research for which they've been (presumably) so well prepared! It is ironic that a group which only days ago announced its intention to encourage Physics concentrators to become high-school teachers does its best to weed out all but future physics researchers. Michael S. Beauchamp...
...Antinoise is the mirror image of that wave, an equal and opposite vibration exactly 180 degrees out of phase with the noise to be blocked. When noise and antinoise collide, they interact with what is called destructive interference, canceling each other out. The idea is not new; generations of high-school physics students have seen destructive interference demonstrated with undulating Slinkies or jump ropes. But it is only recently -- with the advent of small, high-speed signal processors -- that scientists have had the computer power to make practical antinoise devices...
...lessons learned at school can easily be undermined by today's popular culture. The messages that blare from stereos, TVs and movie screens amount to a second education for the young. And much more money goes into the development of this after-school curriculum than goes into education. Rock * stars earn millions, but a high-school teacher is lucky to get $30,000 a year...