Word: student
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questionnaire, returned by half of all upperclassmen, investigated a broad range of issues: library usage, student alcohol abuse, race and gender relations, academic quality at the College and satisfaction with the College...
Perhaps something is quietly passing us by as we are attending "the nation's oldest, richest and most prestigious college." Perhaps it is a good thing the student body here is "reputed to be one of the best in the country." The education, based on sound courses, attentive professors, well-organized departments and intelligent counselling, is the only thing missing...
...says, and few likely believe, that deans, professors and staff in charge of the College seek to sabotage students' undergraduate experiences. Indeed, Harvard adminsitrators obviously make great efforts to serve a staggering variety of student demands. (But, then again, isn't that what we're paying...
Doesn't the fact that the commonly-held perception--and now all-too confirmed view--that what is missing at Harvard is a coherent, consistent attention to undergraduate education suggest action should be considered, something beyond pleasant acknowledgement? It's time we placed student's concerns above tradition, a busy faculty's convenience or an active student body's impressive dedication to work in the face of disappointing odds...
...abuses at big football schools have shown, college athletics no longer expresses the search for the Greco-Roman model of the well-rounded student. Big athletics is big business, with TV contracts and hefty donations. Even at Harvard, most sports have reached the point where most students cannot participate in them. Most students at Harvard no longer seek the sound body in organized sports, but in the MAC. If varsity sports are not bringing a sound body to most undergraduates, why are they given so much importance...