Word: background
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Living in a city, you learn to filter out background noise. There’s a constant din of cars passing, doors closing, planes passing, computers humming. We dorm dwellers are especially adept at tuning it out. Richard Yates has a great passage about the sound of the city in a story called “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint—so very, very faint?...
...their instructors agree that now, more than ever, new advances in biology require a solid background in mathematics...
...biology concentrator Elizabeth V. Hallinan ’04 wrote in an e-mail. “I am doing a thesis in a psych[ology] lab and my advisors basically walk me through how they analyze the data because I don’t have any stat[istics] background...
...main problem in teaching probability and statistics in BS50 is not so much lack of background,” Hartl wrote in an e-mail, “but mathophobia—the fear that many students have that they will not understand anything with a mathematical content no matter how hard they...
...Harvard history. John Winthrop comes off as a humorous mad-scientist type as he encourages the use of newfangled microscopes, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz campaigns for a women’s college and Joe Kennedy looks longingly up at the Porcellian Club he can never join because of his Catholic background...