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...become specialized early, which is a mistake: the laborious exhilaration of learning a profession should not push aside the broadening of the minds and horizons of the undergraduates, which will make them deeper and subtler specialists later. Thanks to the charismatic Homi Bhabha, the Humanities Center is helping to lower the often artificial barriers among disciplines...
...Most often, early applicants are students from affluent families, while students from lower-income families often wait until the regular decision round sot that they can compare financial aid offers. By creating a single deadline, admissions officers hoped to make the process more equitable...
...rest of the semester, however, was not as productive. Having faced several meetings in recent years—including November’s infamous debate—in which the Faculty failed to meet quorum, the Faculty put a proposal to lower quorum from one-sixth to one-eighth on the agenda for the next meeting. Perhaps out of shock at having accomplished something during the February meeting, or maybe out of fear that the meeting would not reach quorum itself, the Faculty decided to cancel their March meeting, putting off their discussion of the quorum question until April?...
...Summers was an important person here at Harvard, and I felt kind of bad that he had nothing to do with Commencement week,” Gillis said. “I just really wanted to hear from him.”The event was originally scheduled for Adams Lower Common Room, but had to be moved to Eliot Dining Hall when over 300 people showed interest, Gillis said. Many of Monday’s attendees appeared to be the interested parents of soon-to-be graduates.Asked after the event whether he had any designs on reprising the dance moves...
...fellow physics concentrator once explained to me that, since high school, she had been trained to be really good at math and physics, and she was frankly too scared of doing poorly to risk taking a music class. A few changes to Harvard’s academic policies could lower the barrier of taking such risks and encourage students to explore interests beyond their chosen fields...