Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the women's varsity basketball team. But after two sparkling seasons, she found the game she had played since fifth grade too time-consuming, and felt whe was simply "doing it out of habit." So she took up squash, worked as a teaching fellow for an applied math course, and concentrated on golf. "You have to question what you do once in a while. You don't really grow that much unless you try new things," she says, but adds that she does miss the team aspect of basketball...
...decided early on that I would major, oops, concentrate, in Government, and I took the well-known courses--Government A, English A, Math A, History A and so on. Historian Frisky Merriam was walking across the stage of New Lecture Hall in 1926 and putting his feet up on the lectern, distracting his students. He was a character. Later on I had Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. in another history course. He told the story of some C-minus student who had to be told what femmes de guerre were. "Oh, I thought they were hors de combat," the fellow said...
...school Stewart lettered three years in both baseball and football. When he came to Harvard, he played both as a kicker and a quarterback on the freshman football team but then dropped the sport to concentrate on baseball. He also sang in the Glee Club freshman year and tutored math. He has been active in the Phillips Brooks House Big Brother program throughout his Harvard career. But things weren't always so rosy...
...resent the required logic course because the material is too technical. "It was mathematics, not humanities. We just learned to work with mathematical systems and equations," James L. Matory '82, who switched from Philosophy to Social Anthropology after one semester, says. Although he readily admits that students experienced in math tend to do better in the course, Goldfarb explains that the material is not inaccessible to those who approach the course with an open mind: "The goal of the course is to introduce many studnets to a new form of thinking," he says...
...cent limit on tax increases, City Manager James L. Sullivan ordered every department head to request no more than 2 per cent over last year's budget. "No budget request came in much above that, and some came in a little below," Sullivan said. But figure out the math. If inflation stays above 15 per cent, and budgets only increase 2 per cent, then total spending in real dollars will decrease dramatically. For a year, maybe two, inflation can be absorbed without paring services to the bone. "Everyone knows there is some fat in government," Sullivan says, but then...