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...Physiological Psychology," one of the largest courses offered in the Psychology Department, has tripled in size from when it was first offered only a few years ago. Collectively, Professors John E. Dowling '56 and Ronald L. Calabrese, assistant professor of Biology (neurobiology) and Professors James R. Stellar, assistant professor of Psychology and Dale R. Corbett, assistant professor of Psychology (psychobiology) receive some of the highest ratings to be found in the CUE guide (they average 6.4 out of 7). Students who have taken courses from these professors find the courses to be "instrumental" to their learning as well as very...
...free agency, and its promised million-dollar pot of gold at the end of the option year, it does not work in football. When the game's stellar running back, Chicago's Walter Payton, offered his services to other N.F.L. teams last year, there were no takers. Why would a franchise pay a premium for Payton (and give up two draft choices) when its profits scarcely change, win or lost? In fact, a team may fatten its bottom line by not making the playoffs. All 28 teams split the postseason television money even for the Super Bowl...
Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History and a new arrival from MIT, offers an explanation for the phenomenon in Harvard's stellar array of lecturers. Many students undoubtedly choose Harvard because of its renowned faculty. And once here they find a simple correlation: "Usually the famous lecturers are good lecturers," observes Lloyd Gruber '86, who sat in on as many classes as he could during his first shopping period...
...NOTEBOOK: This is Mabrey's best start ever in her four seasons as head field hockey coach. She attributes part of her team's stellar start to scheduling, however, noting. "We've had most of the easiest games of the season. . ." Mabrey will give her squad today off in an attempt to alleviate the weariness that has plagued it over the last couple of games. Fatigue shouldn't pose as much of a problem once the Ivy schedule starts. Though the games get tougher, the schedule gets saner with the stick women taking on only two opponents per week...
...systems and teachers implement the proposal. One teaching experiment has already been carried out at the Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif. Seventy-five students spent one year studying 50 of Adler's Great Books, using the Socratic method of pedagogy. The results, says Principal Nicholas Caputi, were "stellar," but some 80% of the students were classified as gifted anyway. A fuller test will come in Chicago, where Superintendent Ruth Love plans a pilot school that will give the program a three-year trial...