Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came to Harvard unprepared--not just for the size of the introductory science classes but for the attitude that went with them. On an individual level, I've found excellent people at Harvard--students, professors and administrators alike. At the same time, I spent an awful lot of my first year trying to figure out why many people here were, quite simply, not very nice to each other and why this did not seem to be one of the College's priorities. Harvard has challenged me to do things I never thought I could do (or never thought I would...
While a thorough analysis of the survey results has not yet become available, by most accounts, the students aired complaints related to the law school's huge size. HLS currently has about 550 students...
Charlotte P. Armstrong '49, an HLS alumna who sits on an advisory visiting committee and who is outgoing president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, calls the size of the school its greatest virtue and its greatest curse...
...increase in class size accompanied the housing crunch. Francis J. Heppner '49 remembers that "some of the lecture classes were just huge," with more than 1,000 students...
Each state blundered differently. Washington State tied community mental-health spending to the size of welfare rolls, a sign of stigma itself. In Illinois, the state often paid nursing homes to take many of its patients. But old people and mentally ill people don't have the same needs, and few nursing homes hired the staff needed to treat the different set of patients. A bill before the Illinois legislature would require those hirings, but the efforts come too late for Russell Weston Jr. In 1996 he became an outpatient at an underfunded community mental-health center in Waterloo...