Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee's new position--that classes that serve as departmental bypasses no longer can serve as Core bypasses--puzzles us. If the departments understand an A.P. score as proving a certain level of proficiency adequate for higher-level classes, and A.P. credit is also the basis for Advanced Standing, why does the Faculty Council not believe that A.P. tests should be allowed as Core bypasses...
Stich's article conveys the understandable frustration with which the dedicated volunteers on this campus have responded to their deprecation by the "activist" left. But Harvard's volunteers should not misinterpret the source of the attacks upon them. Only through the lens of Augustine's critique can we understand such behavior correctly: it is the seed of unseemly compassion, and Harvard should not tolerate it. Rather Harvard should embrace a spirit of true compassion, one that finds suffering reluctantly and honestly looks forward to the day when it will be no more...
...There are nights when I have insomnia where I can't sleep because of the stress," Ocon says. "Being a single parent is a scary concept that I don't think a lot of people understand...
...like 'It's really good for me to know so I can understand some of the pressures you deal with," she says. "It didn't have to do with grades. He saw me as a human being...
...have to ask, 'what tradition are they trying to bring back?' What about students that don't speak Latin? They may already feel very disconnected from the University...what does it do to put their degrees in a language they can't even understand?" she said...