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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This morning, don't take your parents to see Marty Feldstein lecture in Harvard Hall. Instead, take them to an overcrowded section in Sever. Try to find a core class being taught by a befuddled TF with no particular expertise in the subject matter. Ask questions he can't answer. Enjoy as the discussion circles endlessly while self-important idiots pontificate in search of participation points. Afterwards, wait in line...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Don't Pull the Wool Over Mom's Eyes | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...crop of the best and brightest, that reputation and consequently our own standing will suffer. In the case of the our parents, we just want them to feel that the great cost of our education has been worth it. If we took them to sit in on an Expos section, they might start to wonder...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Don't Pull the Wool Over Mom's Eyes | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...thesis writer is not the only one who learns from the experience. Bridget N. Terry, associate director of undergraduates in the economic department and teaching fellow of a section for thesis-writers, says thesis advisors learn from the process as well...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Down to the Wire: Last Minute Tales of Thesis Trauma | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

Bridget N. Terry, associate director ofundergraduates in the economic department andteaching fellow of a section for thesis-writers,says thesis advisors also learn from the process...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Down to the Wire: Last-minute Tales of Thesis Trauma | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...last piece on tonight's program is Walter Piston's Third Symphony, a warm, polished, slightly reticent work. The HRO's brass section, sometimes dicey, was wonderful here in rehearsal and Yannatos' tough love made its staccato playing even better. The slow turns of the oboe at the outset have an Italianate flavor (Walter's grandfather was named Antonio Pistone) and the tonal language is cosmopolitan: Piston, luckier than most Harvard seniors, won a Paine Traveling Fellowship after graduation. You'll want to listen in the third movement for exuberant music that Dr. Y wants to deliver in "band style...

Author: By Matt A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRO Suits Up for Junior Parents | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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