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DAWKINS: I think that's a tremendous cop-out. If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested...
COLLINS: Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us. If it suits him to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation...
Naturally, the odd undergraduate at 1369 also hangs out with a pretty hilarious assortment of amiable fashionistas, soccer moms stocking up on Chai, and Cambridge crazies...
Mandating course evaluations and their publication benefits students by improving professors’ teaching and by providing more information about a course before enrolling. But refusing CUE evaluations hurts teaching fellows (TFs) as well as their future students. The 60-odd professors’ rejection of CUE surveys left more than 230 TFs without the formal student evaluations that would help these aspiring academics develop their teaching careers. If Harvard is to expect, as we firmly believe it should, its tenure-track faculty to be as proficient in the classroom as they are in the library or the laboratory...
...Crimson struggled equally in its own zone, as Harvard’s defense failed to match the intensity of the Big Green’s skaters. Time and time again, Dartmouth beat the Crimson to the puck, giving the Big Green a series of odd-man rushes that created several scoring chances—some of which resulted in goals. “They weren’t making tape-to-tape passes,” captain Dylan Reese said. “They were just chipping it off the glass, moving it around, and just putting it in spaces...