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...reply to their letter. It is a sad fact that attempts at humor are sometimes taken seriously, and President Bok may have been confused by the deadpan style of the "Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni for Divestiture" letter, and put off by the list of 300 plus signatures, a realistic but tedious touch. The Committee wishes the antiracist lambasters well in their drive to relax mammoth tensions with some satire, but we would appreciate a little consideration. Glenn McDonald '89 Henry Riggs...
...scatter, the rays, producing fuzzy spots of varying intensity on film. The resulting diffraction pattern looks something like strings of beads. Although each type of crystal creates a distinctive design, the patterns are extremely intricate and were once very difficult to interpret. To get beyond the primitive and tedious practice of scrutinizing the film, Karle and Hauptman contrived a complex statistical formula that takes the position and brightness of the separate spots and "reconstructs" them into a three- dimensional picture of the crystal. Straightforward as this sounds, the equations were so daunting that they were ignored by the scientific community...
...addition, without a union workers must currently undertake tedious and complex grievance procedures just to register complaints or concerns. With the employees spread throughout College and graduate school offices, the central voice of a union would be the only viable means available for staff to raise issues such as comparable worth and health effects of extensive computer...
While some tout the changes as clear steps forward, others remain more sceptical, claiming that the use of machines might tend to quantify a student's understanding of theory, scrificing traditional reliance on tedious work to produce brilliant understanding...
While some tout the changes as clear steps forward, others remain more sceptical, claiming that the use of machines might tend to quantify a student's understanding of theory, scrificing traditional reliance on tedious work to produce brilliant understanding...