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The midterm crunch always sneaks up on us. Whether it means we're writing reams of pedantic essays or botching hundreds of exams, chances are good that this week has brought almost every Harvard undergraduate to the precipice of academic catastrophe--or at the very least, to the precipice of...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Becoming a Bad TF: All You Need to Know | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Almost never looking down at his notes, Fisher's teaching style is far from pedantic, as he blends humor into the class and actually talks to his students.

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Fisher Shines in Top English Course | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

The Andante is near perfectly-paced, with none of the Bernsteinian leanings that plague most recordings of the Fifth, while the subsequent Allegro provides an appropriately misterioso segue into the finale. Here, as Beethoven intended, the brass are brought out in full force, and regardless of pedantic issues of whether...

Author: By Dan Altman and Brian D. Koh, S | Title: War Horse Beaten Back to Life on DG | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

Well, a group of courageous premeds is willing to bet that pre-meds can transcend their stress-filled, petty and pedantic existences. Earlier this spring, 10 undergraduates started the Hippocratic Society, a pre-med ethics society.

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: DART BOARD | 4/29/1995 | See Source »

"Missing" is like St. Paul's trip to Damascus, when the former pagan saw the light and was converted to the truth and to Christianity. In this case, ED Horman goes to Santiago and is converted to liberalism because he sees that his government has betrayed him and the American...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Lemmon Heats Up ARTS FIRST | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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