Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...members of the newest GSAS class, six are Black, one is Puerto Rican, and one is Chicano. Last year's class included 11 Blacks, six Puerto Ricans and two Chicanos...
Despite their Harvard peers' laid-back view of academics, courses have kept all three very busy, thanks largely to language difficulties and unfamiliar "in-class terminology." Like many other freshmen, all three are taking Ec 10; Bing and Jia say they may major in Economics, while Lynn leans towards Applied Math...
...Republic, Lynn says, "doesn't want to reconcile relations with the Soviet Union." Most Chinese, she observes, believe that "life in the USSR is really hard and their government makes people's life even harder. We hear that people don't get enough food, except for the privileged class." But she adds, "I don't know if it's true...
...poll indicates that Harvard students' negative feelings about their professor become more intense as they get older. Two-thirds of the seniors polled said they think Faculty members do not care, compared with a fourth of the freshman class...
Meantime from the podium he projected another character of his own creation, the cosmopolitan, eccentric lecturer: authoritarian but also authoritative, alternately mock-stern and mischievous (he sometimes started over in mid-lecture, to see how long it would take the class to notice), arrogant yet never harsh, in fact downright kindly at times. After explaining that the transformed Gregor Samsa in Kafka's The Metamorphosis was not a cockroach but a beetle, and that beneath his carapace he possessed unsuspected wings, Nabokov told his students: "This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your...