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...course exceeding 100 students (English 10a: “Major British Writers I”). So 69 percent of all undergraduate math grades were from the intro sequence (57 percent from classes larger than 200 people), while fewer than 13 percent of all undergraduate English grades came from its medium-sized introductory course...
...incarnation. Often the striking and memorable features of a biography or autobiography are inexorably tied to the words themselves. A well-written passage can provide even the most seemingly banal details of an ostensibly unremarkable life with a unique glow. Of course, all of the advantages of the written medium are lost when a book is converted into a film. To be sure, the motion picture medium can do many things that a book cannot. The reader’s direct access to the characters’ psychologies is replaced with the filmgoer’s ability to view...
...Well, with anthrax, either you?re exposed to the attack medium, or you?re not. Anthrax is very containable and very treatable. With smallpox, on the other hand, you?re dealing with a highly contagious virus that, if it were used as a bioweapon, has major potential for damage. Also keep in mind that we?re living in a very susceptible society; we stopped vaccinating people in the early 1970s...
...says she is confident that Harvard faculty will be attracted to the interdisciplinary medium Radcliffe provides and will be eager to participate in the Institute’s research, either as fellows or more informally...
...small classes succeed because of the one-on-one contact, and the large classes are good enough to succeed without it. Thus, Light says, even with medium-size classes ballooning into gigantic ones, it is possible to strike an acceptable balance...