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...couple of weeks later I met the same classmate in English A1, a writing class open to (but not required of) students who had tested out of English A (the precursor of Expos). I had added this course on the last possible day, after steadily declining grades (49, 48 and 47 percent) on successive weekly quizzes had convinced me it would be prudent to drop introductory chemistry. I had 3,000 words to make up, but this seemed a small price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning the Material That Won't Be Tested | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

Under this agreement, the precursor to the main merger agreement of 1977, Radcliffe kept its endowment and continued to over-see the Schlesinger Library, the Radcliffe Seminars, the Radcliffe Alumnae Association and the Office of Alumnae Career Services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Solidify Relationship | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Ting, who worked with Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Elias J. Corey, said her thesis focused on the structure of an enzyme which is a precursor to important steroids such as estrogen and cholesterol...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Hoopes Prizes Awarded for Theses | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

...Currier House this year, the people who were randomized into the house pretty much stick to themselves," says BSA treasurer Steve J. Turner '98. "I hope this is not a precursor of what will happen in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Future of Randomization | 4/3/1996 | See Source »

...dressmakers in Paris--and he did not need to labor constantly on the big machines that spelled success or failure at the Salons. So he could work on the studies for their own sake, and these, not the bigger works, entitle him to be seen as a true precursor of Impressionism. Many of his lithographs and etchings of landscape have the same vitality. Full of wind and weather, they show pleasure in the mark for its own sake--Corot was a terrific scribbler at his best--and some are boldly experimental. In the 1850s Corot was among the first artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: BRINGING NATURE HOME | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

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