Word: sci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes Clarke's humor proves accessible only to sci-fi fans, as in his tongue-in-cheek query as to the current whereabouts of former colleague Ron Hubbard. "He was a damn good writer," Clarke says. "He could easily make ten cents a word today." For the uninitiated, L. Ron Hubbard was the man who casually remarked to a science fiction convention that writing for a penny a word was ridiculous. Anyone who really wanted to make a million bucks wouldn't waste his time writing science fiction, Hubbard contended, he'd start a religion. Hubbard then acted...
...with a unique perspective on Harvard. He recalls one event, early in the spring semester last year, which he says set the tone for his later perception of changes in Harvard students: at the end of the first lecture in James Q. Wilson's and Richard Herrnstein's Soc Sci 151, "Crime, Human Nature, and Social Organization," students stood and applauded Herrnstein. When Stephens had last attended classes at the University, students almost daily picketed Herrnstein's lectures for what they believed were his unscientific, racist views on the inheritability of intelligence. The stark contrast "just freaked me right...
...Principles of Economics"919 Hum 9a "Oral and Early Literature" 553 Astro 8 "Cosmic Evolution" 519 Nat Sci 110 "Automatic Computing" 502 Chem 20 "Organic Chemistry" 435 Fine Arts 13 "Introduction to the History of Art" 418 Nat Sci 6 "Organismic and Evolutionary Biology" 402 Math 1a "Introduction to Calculus" 381 Nat Sci 3 "Introduction to Chemistry" 339 Ec 1500 "Financial Accounting...
...Sci 110, "Automatic Computing," moved up from fifth to fourth, with an enrollment of 502 students. Edward T. Wilcox, director of the Program of General Education, said yesterday it will be difficult for the Science Center to meet the increased demand for the computer terminals...
Other Nat Sci courses on the list are Nat Sci 3, "Introduction to Chemistry," and Nat Sci 6, "Organismic and Evolutionary Biology." Nat Sci 6 used to be offered as Biology 1, and is now geared to both majors and non-majors...