Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaints and suggestions that came up were very similar to those made in Katari's article: the first year is drudgery; you learn the math after you are required to know it for physics; better section leaders are needed; the teaching is lousy. Professor Francis M. Pipkin, chair at the time, mediated the discussion with overt sympathy...
...assumption should also be that most Harvard students could be competent physicists. Therefore, the same attention to teaching techniques and materials found in Boylston should be found in Jefferson. I believe successful techniques in teaching both disciplines would be very similar...
...similar situation occurred in the border town of Zicherie, 15 miles north of Wolfsburg. The local volunteer fire department voted to give an old rescue van to Jahrstedt, a small East German farm center just 1 1/2 miles away via a newly opened border post. But the transfer bogged down in government red tape, and the van sits idle in a garage in the West. Still, the offer led to discussions among the fire fighters. Within two weeks the fire departments met over steins of beer and plates of wurst for professional talk. At present they are working out disaster...
...Adviser Brent Scowcroft would like to reduce the price tag on modernization, put a "Bush stamp" on START, and eliminate from both superpowers' arsenals weapons that are as dangerous as they are expensive. Just before the Malta summit last year they suggested scrapping the MX in - exchange for a similar monster missile on the Soviet side, but the Pentagon squelched the idea -- for the time being...
...fundamental problem is that Harvard is not overflowing with courses taught in a similar spirit of relevance; of loyalty not to a field but to a subject, and to relating that subject to you and to me, not as students but as people...