Word: perfectly
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...says a sentence. Each person around the room then has to change it a little bit--it's very fast, and there's no sitting and waiting," says Mark E. Fishbein '84, who took the class in the spring and afterward received a score of 770 out of a perfect 800 on the Harvard placement exam...
Other practical courses added under the curriculum-development program include "Reading Italian," begun two years ago, and "Spanish for the Bilingual," for students looking to perfect their native language...
...says a sentence. Each person around the room then has to change it a little bit--it's very fast, and there's no sitting and waiting," says Mark E. Fishbein '84, who took the class in the spring and afterward received a score of 770 out of a perfect 800 on the Harvard placement exam...
Verba is philosophical about the legacy he leaves to undergraduate education. As a social scientist, he says he understands that the solutions are not going to be immediate or perfect. "Any reform decays and is oversold at the beginning," he says. "You need, as Mao said, constant vigilance to maintain the revolution. Like any institutions there are flurries of interest. This [interest in reforming undergraduate education] is one that's institutionalized in [this] office and will continue to be something that my successor will have to deal with...
Shales too, now thinks that "Nightline"'s style makes perfect television sense. It's easier to fit in on little boxes. All we need to see is their faces," he says. The style, he continues, enhances the show's strength and its efforts "to shed a lot of light on a variety of issues...