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...poor souls—they didn’t have the time to acquire this knowledge,” says Classics assistant professor Francesca Schironi. “You can’t read Pindar nonstop with two years of Greek.”Doing poorly in the six-hour general examination—which consists of sight translations and analyses of passages from writers ranging from Terence to Herodotus—can jeopardize Classics concentrators’ chances of receiving honors and even graduating.But the sort of broad-based, survey knowledge that the generals were intended to encourage won?...
...credit card in full each month. Where is the problem? Health care is simply out of control. I was taken to the emergency room a few weeks ago. Ambulance bill: $959. Hospital bill: $13,830. Follow-up with a personal physician and specialist: $463. Total: $15,252 for a six-hour, non-life-threatening situation that was diagnosed incorrectly in the emergency room. No wonder the country is in trouble. Frugality cannot cure this type of debt, and common situations like this one cannot be ignored. Jean Dennis, WESTMINSTER, COLO...
...undergraduates won the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The winning team members were Arnav Tripathy ’11, Iurie Boreico ’11, and Zachary R. Abel ’10, each of whom received a $1,000 award for their victory in the team competition. The six-hour, 12-question exam was administered by the Mathematical Association of America in the first week of December. A total of 3,627 students from 545 colleges in the United States and Canada participated. The premier undergraduate mathematics competition covers fields such as group theory, set theory, graph theory...
...area the Harvard women hope to improve upon as the season progresses is their starts. She said the Crimson needs better consistency in getting off the line, as they were plagued this weekend with rather mediocre starts.Back in Cambridge, the Harvard co-ed squad decided to skip the six-hour van ride to St. Mary’s City over the weekend and opted to instead engage in some practice team racing with some Crimson alumni and other talented sailors.“With everyone having midterms and papers right now, we decided to stay home and not make...
Dream Date. For those metro-sexual men out there, the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego's "Fantasy Dream Date" package gets you a six-hour treatment with your significant other, including facials, body wraps, reflexology and massages at the hotel's spa and, if you can sit upright after all your muscles have been thoroughly worked over, dinner at Nobu. Rates start at $1,500.207 5th Ave., San Diego; 866-751-ROCK...