Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Last July the New York Times Book Review revised its best-seller list by splitting off a separate category for children's books. The move came just in time to prevent Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from zooming to the top of the fiction list--and joining the three earlier Harry Potter titles firmly ensconced among the 15 slots. By shunting the wizard books out of its main chart, the Book Review fiddled with logic but appeased publishers and authors who believed they had been "Pottered"--denied best-selling status by the J.K. Rowling juggernaut...
...candidates to make the best possible case for themselves. In its final phase, our committee does consider supporting materials from the Houses, but decisions fall on the basis of what candidates themselves have chosen to submit. However attractive it might be to have recommendations and/or interviews in the review process, the late start of Harvard's academic year makes this logistically unfeasible without moving the process back into the summer or spring...
...process is actually under constant review, and as Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has suggested, we will revisit it again this year. It's worth noting that this same process led to outstanding results in the Canadian Rhodes and British Marshall Scholarships competitions this year. The Crimson's headline last Monday said Harvard had been "shut out" this year, an approach that seems wrong. Rhodes Scholarships aren't simply prizes that schools collect, but opportunities for students. As U.S. Rhodes Secretary Elliot Gerson '74 told The Crimson, "We choose individuals, not colleges." I appreciate the disappointment...
...College is not the only Harvard school that prevents students from participating in its administrative and disciplinary body. Harvard Medical School has two such organizations, the Academic Societies Promotion and Review Board and the Standing Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, neither of which has any student members...
Whether called an Administrative Board or an Academic Societies Promotion and Review Board, these committees deal mainly with ensuring that students' behavior, both academic and social, matches that expected of a Harvard student...