Word: monsterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professors end up carrying the burden, struggling with ways to tame the monster class. When a popular course is only offered every other year, class size explodes in order to accommodate the crowd. Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz's course, Historical Study B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice," attracted so many students that a restricting lottery was necessary. But when Horwitz attempted to remedy the evil by offering to teach his course every year, the Core office refused. Unwilling to face the hellish lottery process again, he reveals to FM he will...
...Professors of monster classes wrestle with a frustrating and alienating circumstance. Some, however, have made heroic attempts to tame the beast-like class...
...Freaks come in all shapes and sizes. The monster-size class guarantees all varieties of side show hijinx...
...Inevitably, students get lost in the fray. There are casualties of a monster-size class...
...While these two students epitomize the heinous fallout of a monster class, the small-scale implications of negligible student-teacher relations can prove just as detrimental to the student. Mendelsohn himself admits that the distance between him and his students in his Core course is glaring. "Someone will walk though the Yard and smile at me and I'll have no idea that they are in my class," he recalls...