Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading period provides a more important opportunity than catching up on reading. The sheer amount of content and conceptual knowledge students are asked to synthesize in a semester is staggering. Reading period provides a chance for students to look back over the term, compile the vast body of knowledge they have been presented with and reach a new plateau of understanding...
...pages of historical text on why Rome fell or two biology textbooks on how our nervous system regulates body function is a daunting task. To do so for four classes in 12 days is even more arduous. Add to that review sections, foreign language classes and a term paper or two, and students find themselves in quite a predicament...
Introducing new material should be restricted to the semester proper. Term papers should be due in the first week of reading period so that students' studying is uninhibited in the five days before exams...
Blair said she has been working on the project for the last several years and that she will spend the term of her fellowship "conceptualizing and starting to write...
...correct this mistake, Einstein added a term to his equations that he called the "cosmological constant." This constant altered his equations to show that the universe would expand for a while and then stay relatively the same size...