Word: visioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...House system was not without its problems. From the start, Lowell's tutorial program seemed to founder, prompting a Student Council report in 1959 that lamented a lack of interaction between students and faculty. Lowell's vision of the House as an academic locus gave way to his notion of the House as the center of social interaction. As all the students of the College settled in to live and play football together, it was entirely the social dimension that cut away at the elitism of class Lowell deplored. More memorably, in the eyes of Harvard students at least...
...ahead, it is our hope that the future leader of Harvard will take advantage of the University's present fiscal security and broaden the scope of the office beyond that of fundraising and managing administrative affairs. First and foremost, we believe that a university president should present a sweeping vision of how young men and women should be educated--the sort of vision that breathed life into the tenures of past Harvard presidents, Charles W. Eliot 1853, A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877 and Derek...
...Specifically, we feel Rudenstine has not used the "bully pulpit" nature that the Harvard Presidency allows often enough. Although Rudenstine's efforts on the national stage to lobby for affirmative action and funding for university research were memorable, his immense fundraising charge did allow him to provide a coherent vision of what a college education--or at least a Harvard education--should constitute...
...congratulate President Rudenstine for completing his ninth year as Harvard's president and thank him for the hard work he has done in restructuring and funding the University. However, a year from now, at President Rudenstine's last Commencement, his successor will already have been chosen and the vision that will guide the College's and the University's future will be in place. Those who will be, at the end of today, the College's newest alumni and alumnae must take an interest in how Harvard's gifts will be utilized in the years to come...
...House websites--online today for all 12 Houses--sit on some half-dozen computer servers across campus and vary wildly in their content, vision and importance to the House community...