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...addition to the social consequences that low enrollments have for students, they also affect teachers’ experiences. Fowler-Finn said that some middle schools are so small that there are sometimes not enough students to warrant a full-time staff member for a specific subject, discouraging some of those part-time teachers from staying for long...
...architect and artist? NFW: I think people were afraid of him during his lifetime...He was so prickly, so opinionated, that no one wanted to work with him. Why no one tackled it since then I don’t know. I don’t know why the subject has proved so daunting. He was definitely what we would call a control freak in every aspect of his life. There is so much about this man—love affairs, politics, [and] you have his willingness to work with Lenin, Mussolini, Petain, de Gaulle, Nehru, and the American...
...Food is an extremely interesting subject,” says Harvard alum Jeffrey L. Steingarten ’64, food columnist for Vogue, frequent judge on the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” and acclaimed food essayist. “It’s certainly more important than sex. If you want to know which subject is really more interesting to the human race, just fast for 36 hours.”Over the past few decades Harvard has taken the message behind Steingarten’s comments to heart. Formerly...
...students in Government 1540: “The American Presidency,” final exam scheduling, rather than just ticket scarcity, was set to be a major hindrance in their ability to watch the 2009 Presidential inauguration. After the ironic scheduling conflict became the subject of student protest, course Professor Roger Porter announced yesterday that the exam had been moved from January 20 to January 13. Elyse M. Schoenfeld ’09, a student in the class, said that she met with Porter two weeks ago to discuss the conflict between the exam date and the inauguration. According...
...English department overwhelmingly approved the largest overhaul of its undergraduate concentration in over 20 years on Tuesday afternoon. The new program would sweep away all the current requirements except Shakespeare and replace them with four subject areas or “affinity groups...