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...expansion of the faculty naturally bodes well for the student-faculty ratio. A student-faculty ratio is no mere number, but an expression of the intellectual life of the institution. Regardless of the advantages of large lecture courses taught by distinguished professors, the steadily decreasing ratio gives each student the opportunity to meet professors, cultivate deeper relationships with them and find the academic niche that he or she finds most inspiring. The more professors there are, the more likely a student is to find a professor whom he or she believes to have profound insights, meaningful suggestions and pertinent methods...
...course, even as a mere number the student-faculty ratio has its uses. The number is not only symbolic of an attitude towards teaching. It is also a significant indicator that potential applicants use to gauge the educational atmosphere of the country’s top schools as they shop for an alma mater. That a decreasing ratio will make Harvard more competitive with its peer institutions is not to be scoffed...
Strong guard play by BU guards Chaz Carr and Wynn dictated the flow of the game. The Terriers had 18 assists and nine turnovers, while Harvard had an embarrassing 7-to-18 assist-to-turnover ratio...
...start last season. Junior Michael Beal started the game, finishing with four points, an assist and six boards. Giovacchini came off the bench to record six points and three assists to just one turnover—the only Harvard player to register an assist-turnover ratio of greater than one on the evening...
...point guard play for us was makeshift throughout last season,” Sullivan says. “That clearly is the position that we need to clean up dramatically. We can’t play another season with the assist-turnover ratio that existed among all three perimeter positions, but more significantly at the point guard position...