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After recent losses to Princeton and UMass, the Harvard men's lacrosse team looked to this weekend's Yale game as a chance to pull itself out of a mid-year slump that was slowly creeping into the season's final third...
...hard to imagine that the goals of the Science Alliance might be achieved as effectively through such programs. Incoming first-years will be much more likely to be convinced that they should try science than mid-year students who have already opted for humanities courses. Indeed, the Science Alliance's niche was in roping young Harvard women into the sciences right at the beginning of their college careers. The panels and speakers, the small group setting, the interaction with upperclass women in the sciences--this sustained barrage gave incoming first-year women the confidence to opt for those tough science...
...Council approved the recommendations of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Undergraduate Council to increase the mid-year vacation to one full week...
Much of the impetus for change has come from student input within the departments. Students say course heads for Chem 10 reduced the class workload following predominantly negative mid-year evaluations, and Chem 5 and 7 offer tri-weekly "help rooms" to work through difficult concepts and problem set questions...
...call. I call my good friend from California, and the two of us feel we are in the same boat--it is the one we call mid-year doldrums. To push ourselves back into the current, we get away. How I do remember that Kroks/Chattertocks concert. Although the Kroks cannot replace Frank, their rendition of Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" was good. Afterwards, we went to the Cheesecake Factory, and I got to know another human being and fellow House resident...