Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There's a popular version of Psychology and many students enter the field with preconceived ideas, and they're often the wrong ideas," Brendan A. Maher, professor and former chairman of the Psychology Department, says. "It's a combination of scholarly and scientific skills in understanding and working with the problems of human behavior." The rationale behind the empirical bias, Maher explains, is that Harvard's Psych Department stresses the areas in which it's strongest. "We've got considerable strength in the research areas," he says, "but Psychology is a very large field, and to be strong in everything...
...hammer throw is a little known and much neglected event outside of track and field circles. Many people don't realize that the hammer is not an over-sized nail-pounder, but a 16-1b metal ball attached to a long metal handle that is whirled about the head twice and let fly, usually soaring 200 feet through...
STUART CARY WELCH joined his grammar school class on a field trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts when he was 11. At the museum, the students dutifully marched through an exhibition of Indian and Persian paintings. Welch's classmates, one supposes, paid attention to the paintings for as long as they had to. But Welch really liked what he saw. He liked it so much, in fact, that seven years later, after he finished his schooling at St. Paul's, Welch came back to Boston to study fine arts at Harvard...
Catcher Joe Wark has to work more closely with Stewart than anyone else on the field and says he always feels comfortable behind the plate when Ron's out there...
...lost my confidence in myself and had both motivational and disciplinary problems," the Lowell House resident said, looking back on what was obviously a hard time in his life. "The competition was getting to me, both academically and on the field...