Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, professors can hit the ground running. Under the shopping days system, instructors in their first official class meeting can begin lecturing on the subject matter in earnest. The shopping days meetings fulfill the functions of general introduction and discussion of the syllabus...
...first day of classes (the Monday after shopping days), the lecturer can tackle the subject matter of the course without stumbling through administrative details. Instructors also have the added benefit of knowing at the first lecture with fair certitude the number of students who will be in the class. Nearly all students interested shopped the introductory sessions, and those committed to the course attend the first lecture...
Upon arrival, students--who may or may not have anticipated the reality--are forced to cope on their own with the effects of Valedictorian Syndrome, the sense each Harvard student has by the end of high school that he or she has mastered some subject area or skill. Problems arise when these talented individuals convene and butt heads without the proper head gear in contests of one-upmanship. It's dirty subtle fighting, and the administration permits this same scenario to play itself out each fall. That's where first-year drinking comes...
Chemistry/physics concentrator Iris Lan '98decided not to double up her introductory physicscourses and recommends that students without astrong physics background do the same because"people need time to mature in the subject...
Professor of Molecular and Cellular BiologyHoward C. Berg, who was then at Caltech, sparkedMeister's interest in the biologicalsciences--specifically in the subject of bacterialmotion...