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While some Harvard students undoubtedly perform the simple calculus of choosing the class with the greatest differential between the CUE Guide's "subject matter" and "difficulty" entrees, many athletes disagree that classes they pursue are guts...
...even if mistakes were made, the magazine's figures are not mythical. Take a random sample of 15 undergraduates, and I submit to you that most will have taken a significant percentage of large classes. Few students would claim that multivariable calculus, basic writing and beginning language skills need to be taught by Ph.D.s. But they do expect to learn philosophy, history and literature in a setting where argument, debate and questions thrive--in small classes led by members of the faculty...
During the hour-long event, viewers learned that Gibson does spank his children, hates calculus and really likes being rich...
...idea that you could develop a calculus to make any sense out all of the differences between colleges is not a very helpful or promising enterprise," Rudenstine said...
...city's black civil-rights leaders and gave them holy hell. The tongue lashing caught the attention of Richard Nixon. At the Republican Convention that summer, when it came time for him to pick a Vice President, he surprised everyone by coming up with Spiro Agnew. In Nixon's calculus, Agnew was a safe-bet border-state novice with no heavy baggage and a Greek-immigrant father, which would help with the ethnic vote. He had been known as a Republican moderate, based on his campaign for Governor against a Democrat who ran on what was then a racially inflammatory...