Word: methods
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...years that have followed, much ink has been spilled over the benefits and drawbacks of randomization, yet that is mostly an aside. Indeed, the system has benefits and drawbacks, but it is a method that is unlikely to change (at least for as long as Harvard College is in Cambridge and not Allston-based). What is much more interesting is something that could be witnessed over email-lists and inside dining halls this week: students who profess overflowing House pride...
...arrive at Boylston Hall, pick up the letters for their Houses, and proceed to the dorm room of each blocking group’s primary contact, according to Cabot HoCo Co-Chair Thomas R. Benson ’09. While Benson said that he thinks the new student delivery method will be beneficial for Cabot House, he predicted that HoCo members from other Houses might experience a negative backlash. “Some Houses will like to show their newbies House spirit,” he said. “But others are concerned that freshmen might get upset...
...cramped sophomore quads into triples), it is an unprecedented breaking of an unspoken pact that leaves the Class of 2009 feeling at worst, cheated and at best, ignored. The timing of the announcement (in the middle of midterms and three days before spring break) and the method through which it was delivered signify that the House administrators were either attempting to slip the change in under the radar or simply did not understand the impact that such an announcement might have on rising seniors. Contrary to popular belief, Harvard students generally are more grounded and have better perspective than...
...Last week, there were signs Florida might provide an opening for Clinton. Florida's Democratic chairwoman Karen Thurman floated the notion of holding a new election that would meet the national rules by having the re-vote primarily through mail-in ballots. But many key state leaders opposed the method as unfair and impossible to pull off by a June deadline. Thurman herself acknowledged as much when she introduced the plan, and on Monday she pulled the plug...
...minimize the impact of second-hand smoking on non-smokers. And while most patients don’t normally take smoking breaks with their physicians, the hypocrisy of a smoker imparting health advice certainly does damage to the doctor-patient relationship. Beyond the merits of the ban itself, the method of implementation is laudable for its foresight: Rather than placing an immediate ban on cigarettes, the administration delayed the ban for one calendar year, which will hopefully allow many of those who smoke enough time to quit before their jobs will effectively force them to. Moreover, HMS will be providing...