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...fill the room with ugly, roaring noise, overwhelming the quiet plaint of the antique benches that groan under the load of bodies. Sanders swarms; handouts and slow-movers clog the main door causing backflow into Memorial Hall. The room's air, warm and moist, smells of Chickwich. The Harvard monster-size class begins...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...maKing a monster...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...Within the pages of Harvard's two academic bibles-the Courses of Instruction catalog and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide-the monster class is conceived. Save for a week of so-called "shopping," with daily battles to grab half a syllabus, official Harvard literature provides students with the only concrete evidence of the class to come, and many students scrutinize these books, studying enrollment stats and reading into course titles...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...From course catalog to buzz, the word is spreads-a monster is born...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...monster matures, it develops more ghoulish features-ever larger, ever disinterested...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

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