Word: orderlies
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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...
...Instead of simply passing out a new problem set, Piel decided to use game theory, one of the primary topics studied in ESS, in order to subtly frighten students who might have felt tempted to glance at the lifted answer key. In a biological context, game theory is used to predict the optimal behavior or adaptive strategies of animals in a competitive environment while also having to account for the probability of alternative strategies in the neighboring environment. Piel wrote a creative game theory word problem that would apply to the classroom situation and e-mailed the problem to every...
...this is a preview page with thoughts toward the future, so a preview column is in order...
...inadequately represented many of the perspectives of this situation. Too much emphasis has been placed on the comparative bank accounts of each institution. The Globe and The Crimson at times seemed far more interested in analyzing the relative successes of Harvard's and Radcliffe's individual capital campaigns in order to determine the pertinence of Radcliffe's future to undergraduates, rather than asking the important questions: What is each of these schools doing to improve the education of their students? How successful has Radcliffe been at advancing women? Is Harvard actually more successful...
Figure this one: The United Nations is temporarily lifting the international ban on the sale of ivory -- in order to raise money for elephant conservation! The U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species announced Wednesday that three impoverished Southern African countries -- Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia -- would be allowed to sell 60 tons of stockpiled ivory. They've promised to spend the millions of dollars fetched by the tusks on new efforts at conservation...