Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the 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...
It is no surprise that so few students concentrate in the sciences after they have gone through introductory math and science courses here. Few people could be encouraged by the mediocre learning experiences they often find in these courses. Many of the introductory classes may have star professors with excellent...
These problems may be even worse in upper-level courses--the courses that potential science stars take in their first year. It seems that there are even fewer quality teachers and interested professors in the higher level first-year courses and that the departments may be banking on the students...
In the fall of 1987, when I was one of the third-year law students interviewing for jobs, the D.N.A. recruiter had a full day scheduled at Harvard, which resulted in the hiring of two summer clerks and myself. Last fall we also spoke to a large number of Harvard...
Besides, the existence of two German states is a stabilizing factor for European security. To be perfectly frank, despite differences in views, I know of no serious politician, either in the East or the West, who is interested in the unification of the two states.