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...schedule. "It's beneficial for the environment and beneficial for workers," says Lori Wadsworth, a professor at Brigham Young University who helped survey state employees. "People loved it." Those who didn't tended to have young children and difficulty finding extended day care. (See 10 ways your job will change...
...It’s obviously tough, but it’s a good chance for us to play goals down and see if we can respond well,” junior co-captain Gina Wideroff said. “I think we did a pretty good job of responding and not shutting down.” After Mann was forced to make two clutch saves on a free kick and a dart from close range by Ebert, Harvard cut the deficit in half on sophomore Hana Taiji’s goal late in the first half. Her first score...
...young players, given a large reduction in the 2009 squad’s size. Harvard boasts only 15 athletes on its roster this season, down from 20 last year, and Keating noted that the rookies must be ready from day one. “Our freshmen did a great job,” she said. “Because of how small we are, they will have to step up and contribute right away. They don’t really have time to get acclimated to collegiate athletics.” Despite being thrown into the fray, Harvard?...
...level of undergraduate demand. Compare this to Expos 20, which Harvard requires every freshman to take. Clearly, the powers that be recognize that incoming students, accomplished and talented as they may be, still benefit from an introduction to Expository Writing. And, despite the yearly complaints, Expos 20 does its job. But while public speaking resources do exist (including classes at the Bok Center, programs at the Bureau of Study Counsel, an Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding course, and a Crimson Toastmaster’s Club), Harvard leaves undergraduates to seek out this help on their own, instead of requiring or encouraging...
...persuasion and deemed it a central facet of education. The field of rhetoric changed and developed during Roman rule and onward, until Harvard itself established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1806. It was Francis J. Child, the second professor to hold the position, who shifted the job once and for all toward literature and away from public speaking. Now, Harvard’s commitment to rhetoric is almost nothing more than a memory...