Word: microcosmic
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...Harvard goes to great expense to recruit a diversified class, and we think that the Houses should reflect as much as possible a microcosm of the College," Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel said...
...breath of the University are as inseparable from its academic bent as the actions of the expatriates in Casablanca are from the war. Whether we are for or against academia, politics or the Free French, the stage has been set. Randomizing Houses with the goal of creating "a microcosm of the Harvard community" within each building is an admirable goal, but it is far from the whole story...
...arguments for and against smaller maximum blocking-group sizes are varied. Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel wrote in an e-mail message that, after randomization, "each House should be a 'microcosm' of the College in terms of diversity...
...years, computer science students have been on computers and sharing infrastructure," he says. "You can look at that as a microcosm of what was going to happen when everyone got online...
...contributor Dr. Ian Smith is troubled by the implications of the survey, but he also has scientific concerns about the methodology. "The researchers did a good job of getting a geographically and medically diverse sampling, but we have to be careful and ask ourselves, does this sample represent a microcosm of society?" says Dr. Smith. "Can we extrapolate a national trend from these groups' behaviors?" With these caveats in mind, doctors and parents should take note of two critical points presented by the Maryland study. "First, it's extremely troubling that young kids are being prescribed drugs that have serious...