Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professors end up carrying the burden, struggling with ways to tame the monster class. When a popular course is only offered every other year, class size explodes in order to accommodate the crowd. Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz's course, Historical Study B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice," attracted so many students that a restricting lottery was necessary. But when Horwitz attempted to remedy the evil by offering to teach his course every year, the Core office refused. Unwilling to face the hellish lottery process again, he reveals to FM he will...
...Professors of monster classes wrestle with a frustrating and alienating circumstance. Some, however, have made heroic attempts to tame the beast-like class...
...thought this would be an easy two days for the Crimson, but it fought to keep its record among the best in the Ivy League, failing to tame the Tigers 111-189, but keeping the Bulldogs on a tight leash 157-143 and demolishing the Quakers. Certainly, the team's bigger test of the two meets was against conference-leading Princeton and arch-rival Yale. HARVARD 111 PRINCETON 189 HARVARD 157 YALE...
Before we get too carried away by the idea of improving human intelligence with genetic technology, it's worth noting that no domesticated animal is more intelligent than its wild, undomesticated ancestor. Compare a domesticated dog with a wolf or a coyote, and the tame dog will come up short. Intelligence evolves in response to heavy selective pressures in the struggle for survival. The lean, mean environment of the urban poor, not the "pop genetics" of the affluent suburbs, is already producing some of our next generation's geniuses. JOHN W. HOOPES Lawrence, Kans...
Harvard will kick off its Ivy schedule this weekend with home contests against Cornell (5-6) and Columbia (3-7) at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson tips off against the Big Red tonight at 6 p.m. and will look to tame the Lions tomorrow evening at the same time...