Word: overing
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18--Harvard announces its yield for the Class of '93 to be 71 percent, 1 percent off last year's level. Asian-American students amount to over 17.4 percent of the class, a record by 3 percent over previous levels. Minority student representation reaches 32 percent, also a record, about...
Whether or not the school's review is a reaction to external or internal criticism--or both--the debate it has sparked over the extent to which quantitative approaches should continue to dominate the school's curriculum promises to reshape the school under Putnam.
But over the past few years the movement to incorporate ethics and values into the curriculum of the graduate school has been an ever-growing one, increasing in support from almost all directions.
Disputes over scientific research methods, long ignored by an uninterested public, made headlines earlier this year when a pair of University of Utah researchers claimed they had discovered a reaction that could provide the world with a virtually unlimited source of energy.
"The whole thing is over," said prominent Yale physicist Moshe Gai, who attended the conference. "Pons and Fleischmann's experiment is clearly flawed."