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These increases, in addition to upward trends in each of the nine sub-divisions, are “very encouraging?? and point toward a nation-wide surge in universities’ sustainable practices, according to Olowski...
...positively, praising the professors and expressing a desire to give office hours a try. “You can see how it actually might be when you talk to them,” Edmund V. G. Soriano ’11 said. He called the panel “encouraging?? and said that he was now more inspired to attend office hours. Kelly explained it from an academic’s point of view. “We’re all really shy,” he admitted, pushing students to take the initiative and approach their...
...Committee members said they thought the need to modify Cambridge’s Controlled Choice Plan, designed to consider socioeconomic background when assigning students to kindergarten, reflected a renewed—and encouraging??commitment to public schools on the part of the city’s families...
...permanent director of the Office of International Programs—to the council. The two presented an update of Harvard’s study abroad programs in the past year. In an interview after the meeting, Dominguez described the past year as “very encouraging?? for international study, saying that 37 different units in the University “contributed some money to send students abroad.” Council member Judith L. Ryan said that the body supported an expansion of the study abroad program during the academic term and summer...
This argument does not address, however, the fate of first-years, who are already socially isolated from the rest of the College. The quasi-exclusive nature of the House system, which is slowly intensifying as inter-House restrictions increase, will only serve to exclude first-years further. But encouraging??or merely allowing—first-years to overcrowd upperclass dining halls does little for upperclass integration when first-years arrive by the entryway. The front page of The Crimson on January 24 showed five Greenough residents sitting together in the Quincy dining hall, gabbing only among themselves...