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...even though there are 25,000 species of bryophytes (that's what a moss is--a bryophyte--I learned that yesterday), there were only three people in the course. That's a ratio of about 8333 mosses to each person. I can't deal with it. I mean, I wasn't expecting Hum 103, but for me to take a course around here, I have to be able to get lost...
Registration for the Class of 1980--which boasts the lowest male-female ratio in Harvard-Radcliffe history--begins this morning at 9 a.m. and will stretch on past...
...first year of equal access admissions at Harvard-Radcliffe, which resulted in the lowest male-female ratio in the history of the College, has drawn considerable praise from alumni--but with reservations about the policy's future...
Approximately 1062 freshmen and 567 freshwomen are expected to register today--a decrease of 98 men and increase of 82 women over last year--for a ratio of 1.87 to 1. down from last year...
...that, some Western financiers in recent weeks have begun to express discreet concern about Comecon's mounting pile of debt. The Basel-based Bank for International Settlements has noted that the ratio of debts to exports -which determines a country's ability to repay loans-has reached a high level in some Communist countries. Bank of America, Citibank, Chase Manhattan and Manufacturers Hanover all conspicuously took no part in a recent $250 million loan to the Soviet Union's Foreign Trade Bank. Some Western banks are also trying to raise interest rates charged to Communist borrowers. They...