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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that the math department is not strong in fostering the needs of those who are interested in math but don't love it," says Chan...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Every year, dozens of students--mostly first-years--shelve dreams of medical school and scientific careers after their first semester in Harvard's demanding math and science courses...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

When Sarah I. Meyers '02 arrived at Harvard this fall, she planned to concentrate in philosophy or music. But she was also wanted to study math, so first semester she enrolled in Mathematics 21a, "Multivariable Calculus...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...began taking it as an elective, because I remembered how much I enjoyed [math] in high school," she says. "I just wanted to check...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...Lower levels [in the Math Department] are not taught for pleasure or fun, but as a function to get from point A to point B," she says. "I felt like everyone teaching the course and everyone taking it used it to get to the next math course or physics course or to fulfill the next requirement, not because math was fun or interesting...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

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