Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last April, The Crimson reported on the flaws of Harvard's core curriculum: bored students in overcrowded and undersupplied sections, given inflated grades by undertrained, undermotivated teaching fellows. These sections supplement watered-down lectures by a growing roster of professors, who are frequently confused about how to teach "approaches to...
If, after all, the essence of morality is respect for each life, and if, , furthermore, all future life is threatened by rampant reproduction, then what could be more moral than teaching teenagers that homosexuality is a viable life-style? Or that masturbation is harmless and normal? Or that petting, under...
As political animals, the Bush brothers are strikingly similar. Both cut their teeth in Dad's campaigns; both are flush with money gathered with the help of the decades-old Bush fund-raising apparatus that covers all 50 states; both use operatives from their father's previous campaigns. On the...
Coleridge moved "caves of ice" to Xanadu from the Kashmir region of northern India, where they had been described in 1795 by the Rev. Thomas Maurice in The History of Hindostan. Alexander and a friend, forbidden to travel there because of political turmoil, attached themselves to a mob of religious...
Year-round schools can also be a way to use facilities more efficiently. Some overcrowded schools stagger students into different tracks, ensuring that a fraction of the student body will be away during every grading period. Socorro schools were able to serve 2,000 more children during the 1993-94...