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...many advantages: baked brie at masters' teas, weekly lectures on arcane subjects and the chance to put those seven letters on your resume or monogram for the rest of your life. But after four years here, I have realized just how many things Harvard could improve upon. For the sake of brevity, here is a list of what needs to be done to make Harvard a place where students feel welcome rather than shunted aside by an unfeeling and uncaring bureaucracy...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: What Needs to Be Done | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

...would teach classes of 20 to 30 students, eliminating the need for sections. But since we all know that will never happen at this university that prides itself on research, consider the second option: Make section attendance mandatory but participation optional--thus avoiding students' talking nonsense for talking's sake. Refuse to re-hire teaching fellows with less than a 3.5 CUE Guide rating until they undergo treatment at the Bok Center. And mandate that all sections--Core too--contain 15 or fewer students. It is the only way to begin to legitimate Harvard's overrated educational system...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: What Needs to Be Done | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

...have inflicted even more pain upon her, not the least of which is the reaction of the religious community to her alleged, and false, apostasy. It is unfortunate that in covering the news The Crimson feels that it can recklessly damage the lives of fellow Harvard students for the sake of the story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Doesn't Report With Compassion | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...just write to practice sometimes, to learn about my style and how to refine it," he says. "In the long run you'll feel better about stuff you wrote just for the sake of writing and it will come more naturally...

Author: By Rebecca F. Lubens, | Title: Publishing, Performing And Poetry | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...pirates' lair, Medora dances for the pirates and expresses her love for Conrad, who agrees, for her sake, to free the other slave girls. But this decision angers his close friend Birbanto (Lazlo Berdo), who concocts a plot whereby Conrad is drugged in his sleep and Birbanto attempts to murder him. Medora fights with Birbanto and slashes his arm before the pirates carry her off to the pasha. Conrad, awaking to find Medora gone, is consoled by a suddenly "loyal" Birbanto...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: 'Le Corsaire' Sails to Success: | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

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