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...Class of 1959. Ninety percent of the Biochemical Sciences concentration was comprised of premeds, only around half of whom qualified for the honors track. As a result, according to a 1956 Crimson staff editorial, the change would mainly affect premedical students because it would “narrow the premeds’ choice of field considerably.” But according to a 1956 Crimson article, professors in the biology and chemistry departments believed that making the Biochemical Sciences concentration honors only would promote a more profound understanding of the subjects. Fifty years ago, the non-honors track in Biochemical...
...than the national average—approximately one for every four people. This easily outstripped second-place Canada’s 1:20 ratio and China’s 1:8,000. In addition, a daily influx of almost 250,000 non-resident vehicles crowded the historic and historically narrow streets of Cambridge, some of which had not been widened—or changed much at all—for hundreds of years.Most Harvard students in the fifties experienced the traffic snarls as pedestrians, dodging speeding cars on crowded Cambridge streets. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser...
...calling but because of the association that often gets made between people of faith and a particular political or social ideology. It is past time for those of us who believe in the all-inclusive love of God as found in Jesus to speak out against the intolerant, narrow understanding of grace held by some who call themselves Christian. (The Rev.) David W. Burt Billings, Montana, U.S. Christ calls us to "make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28: 19); that is a call to action, not inaction. Christians are obligated to engage the culture, and the political arena...
...minister because of the association that often gets made between people of faith and a particular political or social ideology. It is past time for those of us who believe in the all-inclusive love of God as found in Jesus to speak out against the intolerant, narrow understanding of grace held by some who call themselves Christian...
...Kaiser Permanente, sponsored the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival last year, the social worker was intrigued. In dragon-boat racing, a 2,000-year-old Chinese sport traditionally held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, paddlers race to a drummer's beat in a long, narrow boat decorated at bow and stern with a dragon's head and tail. Pollonais-Britt, 52, climbed aboard with 21 co-workers for what she thought would be a few practice sessions and one pleasant day on the water. Fast-forward nine months, and she is helping lead the Kaiser...