Word: sectionalism
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...Real World” maintains the pretense of—the pun is inevitable—realism, casting such a predictably diverse group of people that they become their demographic archetypes. Each of the eight housemates fulfills a different quota, constituting a cross section of relatable youth culture. On the recent premiere of “The Real World: D.C.,” the first housemates to move in predicted the arrival of the “hot black guy” and the “gay guy” (the latter never came, but two of the cast...
...course, financial constraints have also affected the Harvard undergraduate academic experience. Section sizes have not risen above the official limits Harvard has laid out for itself, but they have still increased. Section quality steadily decreases with each additional student, so students suffer from increased section sizes regardless of whether they are below Harvard’s section-size...
...course, financial constraints have also affected the Harvard undergraduate academic experience. Section sizes have not risen above the official limits Harvard has laid out for itself, but they have still increased. Section quality steadily decreases with each additional student, so students suffer from increased section sizes regardless of whether they are below Harvard’s section-size...
Walking through Harvard Yard after an English section last fall, another student and I began speculating as to whether any writer had convincingly portrayed the experience of falling in love. Tolstoy developed it too suddenly and Austen privileged convention over emotion. And for Nabokov, love was a clinical affair; a warm body lain on ice. Entomologist, chess-player, master of three languages, and arguably the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century, the ever-meticulous Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov could reach sublime artistic heights, my interlocutor admitted—but who would want to inhabit such chilly...
Economics 1010b instructor Christopher L. Foote is looking forward to starting sections on a Monday—as opposed to a Wednesday, like last year— because it allows professors and section leaders “a little more time to get our act together...