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...Dean of Student's Office has launched a administration-produced, quarterly newspaper to give undergraduates a "broader and more comprehensive" view of College issues, officials said this week...
Containing commentary by faculty and administrators, information on student organizations and a winter sports schedule, 4000 copies of the premiere eight-page issue of the tabloid Harvard College News were distributed yesterday to undergraduate residences...
...surprise that so few students concentrate in the sciences after they have gone through introductory math and science courses here. Few people could be encouraged by the mediocre learning experiences they often find in these courses. Many of the introductory classes may have star professors with excellent subject knowledge and lecturing ability, but that does not suffice to teach students effectively. Sections are a large part of the learning experience in such courses, but many courses seem to dump teaching fellows indiscriminately on their students with little concern for the outcome. If the University wants people to enjoy and become...
...identified in the article two methods of accomplishing that goal: increasing high school interest and improving the college-level education, but they are wrong in thinking the solution can be found entirely in the former. The statistics in are article speak strongly: already around 40 percent of the student body has entered with a strong interest in the sciences--at a liberal arts college--and the students are talented as well. Harvard's winning the Putnam National Math Contest for the fourth straight year is just one example of the superior potential in the student body for sciences. So there...
Chip Weil, 48, a native of Grand Rapids, has been a loyal TIME reader since he was a student of American literature at Indiana University. As a naval officer based for three years in Asmara, Ethiopia, he usually went through each issue more than once. Before arriving here he had a successful 18-year career with the Gannett newspapers; he was a senior vice president of Gannett and publisher of a ten-newspaper group with headquarters in White Plains, N.Y., and, most recently, publisher and CEO of the Detroit News. "TIME," he says, "has always been an icon...