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...David R. Pilbeam, then serving as interim dean of the College, kicked off a year of increasing standardization of social life policies when he issued a notice in October to the Undergraduate Council (UC) that said, “From this date forward no further funds can be dispersed for private parties, including any that may have already been approved for forthcoming dates...
...death, the most famous lyrical change came to pass on Gilman’s original work. Fair Harvard now had “daughters” as well as “sons” and for then-President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, it was about time the music caught up with reality...
...these schools reported skyrocketing application numbers, Harvard officials were unsure of what to expect a few months later. In early fall, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 raised the possibility of a decrease in yield or a decline in total application numbers. While students were waiting for early acceptance letters, Harvard waited for its applicants...
...appropriate future occasion,” said a Harvard spokesman, who added that the senator had originally been slated to attend the event. Also receiving degrees will be spiritual leader, the Aga Khan; Yale developmental psychologist James P. Comer; Princeton art historian Wen C; Fong, Columbia neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel; federal judge Damon J. Keith, women’s historian Gerda Lerner, Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy, University of Chicago biologist Janet D. Rowley, author and commencement speaker J. K. Rowling, and former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson...
...those who pursue “high-risk, high-reward” research, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The project was led by a panel of university presidents and Nobel laureates, including Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech, whose institution collaborates with Harvard to fund research. The study also supports the findings of recent reports: conservative funding tends to result in conservative research, and the competition for federal funds is such that scientists spend more time applying and re-applying for grants than researching itself. Leslie C. Berlowitz...