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...Psychologically, students don't have the feeling that they're doing hard work in the University," says Till M. Roenneberg, a research associate in biology who co-teaches North 119, "Chronobiology: Cells, Organisms, and Temporal Organization," with North House Master J. Woodland Hastings. "If the courses were held in the lecture halls of the bio labs, people would tend to say it's over at half past seven or eight. It's more of an open-ended discussion...
Because the seminars meet in the houses, Roenneberg adds, they can be structured very differently from other courses. A guest speaker would talk for the first half of his weekly class, and then the group would break for dinner in the house before resuming the discussion. This structure, he says, created a much more relaxed and productive atmosphere than the typical Harvard course...
...Alesund's leading citizens as hostages. When the police escorted them to a ship for transportation to Germany 5,000 Norwegians tried to rescue them, got into a fight with German marines. Men threw stones and women nailed with umbrellas. Finally one of the hostages, Harold Roenneberg, appealed for order, ended his appeal with "Long Live the King!" The crowd then stood bareheaded and sang the national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet...
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