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...It’s no surprise that more Harvard undergraduates defect from the sciences than the other way around. The temptations are strong and many: fewer hours in lab, easier Core courses, a more flexible homework schedule, and Thursday nights free from problem sets. Science concentrators routinely spend more than 15 hours per week in class and lab, while our humanities and social sciences counterparts rarely crack that number...
...Harvard—told me that he wouldn’t have made it through a science concentration. I disagree. Any Harvard freshman can complete four years of study in science; all that’s required is a willingness to watch a weekly sunrise over an unfinished problem...
Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Tommie Shelby, who has taught Social Studies 10 during two of the past three years, also acknowledged that students are likely attracted by Social Studies’ reputation: “That’s a Harvard problem. People are competitive and do the thing that brings the most prestige—it goes with the territory...
...problem is not merely that Kirshner and Loader have a different style of leadership than the Gehrkes. It is not about whether a book party is a better House event than a pumpkin carving. Rather, it is that, in all their years at Quincy, Kirshner and Loader never invested as much in the students and in Quincy House community as the Gehrkes did in just nine months...
...sorry that I’m leaving because my leaving is an expression itself of the problem,” says Robert A. Orsi, the committee’s chair, who will head to Northwestern University this summer. Orsi has said he is leaving mainly because the Divinity School did not offer a faculty position to his wife, and he hopes that the University’s new leadership will bring a “new look, new assessment of the place of religion in the College...