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...undecided sophomores without having the size of the fall tutorial swell to an unmanageable size.“We don’t want nobody to take [our fall tutorial], but we also don’t want anyone to take it,” Bryan M. Gaensler, head tutor for the Astronomy Department, said yesterday. His department, which currently offers a strongly-recommended year-long tutorial, is still considering how it may restructure its tutorial.The Philosophy Department, meanwhile, has a year-long required sophomore tutorial that will likely be condensed into one spring-term course, according to Professor...
...required of those who choose to declare Social Studies at the end of their sophomore fall.Nevertheless, Goldfarb said the new legislation would take “pressure off the freshman year to free students from being concerned with minutiae of concentration requirements.”Goldfarb, the head tutor in the philosophy department, presented the motion as a member of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee, which drafted the legislation.The second motion approved by the Faculty yesterday creates a new “cluster” of five concentrations in the life sciences while setting the current...
...great to get away and not worry about campus activities,” she said. “I imagine the forest would be absolutely gorgeous in this spring weather.” Nathan A. Sharp ’08, who visited the forest with an Adams tutor, was impressed with the forest’s dedicated staff. “The most amazing thing is that Harvard actually pays someone to sit there year round and poke holes in the trees to count the number of rings to see how old they are,” he said, adding...
...prominent block letters, all laid out by hand at the Bow and Arrow Press. She says that she hoped the message would inspire her stressed-out peers. Wong is not the first person to use the press to make a statement. According to John Pyper, a non-resident tutor in Adams House who oversees the print shop, the press was founded in the 1950s to publish left-wing propaganda. After a brief lapse into inactivity, the press gained a reputation in the 1980s as a nationally-known private workshop, producing commercial prints under the direction of Gino...
...have said you aim to swing like a jazz musician in every performance. How did you find your rhythm playing a professor who gardens? Jazz is classical American music, and [tutor] Larabee's a classical dude. The methods he uses to teach Akeelah, like keeping time while jumping rope and banging on a watering can, are all pretty swinging...