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...Ugandan Christians, who number about 7 million in a country of 11.6 million. His action was painfully reminiscent of the stories of the "Uganda martyrs," a group of about 200 Christian converts who were persecuted and put to death in the 1880s by King Mwanga, ruler of Buganda, the largest of Uganda's four ancient tribal kingdoms. In 1964, 22 of the martyrs were canonized by the Roman Catholic Church...
...obvious questions after the Office of the Registrar released the list of the largest ten spring semester courses (actually 11 due to a tie) last week are ones like what makes a course like Humanities 9b, "Oral and Popular Literature," attract 667 people, twice as many as took it last year, or why did Natural Sciences 4, "Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," lose 240 people from first semester? In short, what makes a course popular...
...some courses on the list the answer is easy. Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," has been the largest fall course for five years, and it keeps its hold on first place in the spring automatically because it is virtually impossible to drop the course. Chemistry 20b, "Organic Chemistry," which drew 365 students this semester, is a perennial pre-med favorite...
...General Education program, said yesterday that the large number of Gen Ed courses on the list could mean the concept of Gen Ed is working. Since these courses are supposed to have a broad appeal to students in many fields of concentration, they should, in theory, have the largest enrollments...
Despite the continuing upward trend in college costs, the applicant pool for the Class of 1981 is the largest in Harvard history. Obviously there are students whose parents are willing and able to pay for the Harvard mystique. But in spite of the University's lipservice to the ideal of diversity, the trend may transform the student body into more of an economic elite than it already...