Word: workloads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most cases, judgements were no more harsh or mild than those accorded non-Core courses. Students derided or praised Core courses for the same reasons they do any others--quality of the professor, sections, workload and the nature of the material presented. Few viewed Core courses as anything all that revolutionary in and of themselves: Literature and Arts A-12, "Great Novels of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries," discussed great novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries; and Historical Study B-56, "The Russian Revolution," examined the Russian revolution. No surprises...
...that they often have trouble living with. Some 5.1 million passengers a day ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front of onrushing trains; and to top it off, a projected $200 million deficit for the coming fiscal year. Faced with these losses...
...issue of Harvard Magazine, Lansing Lamong '52 wrote of today's students: "In a world of scarcer resources and increasingly competitive achievers, they see the stakes looming larger and larger...they also find less time for dreaming and introspection... " So I'm not the only one who thinks the workload is heavier around here...