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These matters have little to do with the University's traditional disciplines--except as sociological and political phenomena--yet it is not surprising that they should emerge with such fervor on college campuses...
...came to Radcliffe fresh out of the Great Depression and heading into World War II. Both these phenomena had a profound effect on our philosophy, outlook and politics...
...misses the point. Why should anyone have to understand the securities market or chess in order to qualify as intelligent or worthy of admission into Harvard? So's statement is an example of the misguided administrators that has resulted in high dropout rates, student apathy, and low self esteem, phenomena which so ascribes to faulty cultural values. It is high time for educational administrators to realize that walking into a classroom full of disillusioned adolescents while carrying only good intentions and a textbook full of information about the stock market and other wonders of European civilization, is a farce...
...long been my (not entirely popular) theory that grade inflation and student discontent with the quality of sections taught by graduate teaching fellows are related phenomena. As I have already stated in print, Harvard's tenured faculty have allowed a situation to develop in which the CUE system has become a kind of electronic overseer of what once was, presumably, a proud system of rigorous academic evaluation by highly qualified professionals. Now teaching fellows grade students who, in turn, grade them. In too many cases, no professor ever interrupts the flow of this mutually destructive cycle, the result of which...
Much of the research in which HST students are engaged is technical, involving mathematical and computer explanations for biological phenomena...