Word: setting
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...this is nonsense. Solutions on undergraduate exams are a closed, finite set. Nobel prizes are not won by reasoning, "if the professor gave us this question, it must be answerable from the material in Chapter 3 and take less than three blue book pages to compute." What is being tested is whether you guessed right and read the chapter on applications that was not assigned or used another book on the side that emphasized applications...
...writing to set the record straight on the Bush Administration's policy of dealing with events in China since the tragic and violent repression of pro-democacy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square last June 3-4. The Executive Board of the Harvard Republican Club gives its full support and admiration to the Chinese students' courageous fight for liberty, as does President Bush. However, we feel that the editorial cartoon published in the Feb. 1 issue of The Crimson which blasted Bush for vetoing a bill allowing Chinese students to remain in the U.S. after their visas expire, overlooked some key facts...
Bush was widely praised for the national education goals he set in his State of the Union Address on January 31. In his speech, he said that by the year 2000, he hopes to improve the adult literacy rate, increase the high school graduation rate to 90 percent and, more generally, make American students once again the best educated in the world...
Opponents of the President's budget charge that Bush is continuing a trend set by former President Ronald W. Reagan to replace grants with loans as a means of student assistance in higher education...
Subramanian said his address would attempt to set an upbeat tone for the spring semester...