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...years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible form is money. Rather than engaging in the overwhelming process of defining success on their own terms, a significant number of Harvard students have accepted the easy equation of post-graduation...
...professors just sit and stare down at undergraduates. They’re probably only worried about the quality of their wine cellars,” Mayman said. In establishing the current residential life system in the early twentieth century, University President Abbott L. Lowell, class of 1877, sought to depart from some of the English system’s shortcomings.To that end, he envisaged the SCR as a way to engender a more convivial and inter-generational academic environment in the Houses.At its inception, the House system integrated academic and social life—with professors living, teaching, and working...
...integral part of the cognitive life of the University.” Among its recommendations were proposals for increasing the presence of arts practice in the curriculum and increasing student access to arts-practice courses. A quick glance at the studio art course offerings of the VES department underscores the serious need for such changes. But, with the imminent departure of Nancy Mitchnick, one of only two painting instructors in the department, the university appears to be moving in the wrong direction. Undergraduates already have a dismayingly small number of studio art courses to choose from, even fewer of which...
...other schools, J-terms are successful because they give students the chance to pursue on-campus experiences that depart from their normal academic routines. Such opportunities free students to explore different interests and to get to know different sides of their college community. As proposed, Harvard’s J-term will do precisely the opposite. By restricting student access to housing for three weeks in January, Harvard may save money, but it will exact a high cost by disrupting students’ lives and diminishing their college experiences. We urge the administration to reconsider its plan...
...major step in the U.K.'s withdrawal from Iraq, where for six years it has been America's closest ally. Britain's 4,100 remaining troops complete their combat mission on May 31, and all but a few hundred--who will stay in an advisory capacity--are expected to depart by August. Iraq's second largest city has seen some security improvements over the past year, but elsewhere the gains are fragile--a fact highlighted by a suicide truck bombing that killed seven and wounded 38 in Mosul on the day of the handover...