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...March 2007, then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 stated that—although the number of admitted transfer students was to be halved—“We always want to have space for some exceptional transfer students.” Believing that promise, 1,308 students competed for the 40 estimated transfer spots for the 2008-2009 school year, down from 75 two years prior. A month after the application deadline, bad news was sprung upon the applicants: Harvard will not be accepting any transfer students for the next two academic years...
...Fitz has such a vision,” Donahue said. “He is very fair-minded, he reads voraciously, he is genuinely interested in all kinds of different cultures and walks of life. His ability to lead the admissions process in a way that we really admit the most talented students worldwide is unparalleled.”Fitzsimmons returned to work in the admissions office at the College in 1972 after teaching in the sociology department at Holy Cross for one year. He served as the director of admissions for 10 years beginning in 1974. He assumed...
...silly season in presidential politics, the moment when candidates involved in a bruising primary battle seem weakest and bloodied, as both Hillary Clinton and Obama do now. It's the moment when pundits demand action-"Drop out, Hillary!"-and propound foolish theories. And so I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I'm slouching toward, well, a theory: if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democratic Party's dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore...
...admit that even I had to look it up. What I found is that a recession is most commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product (or GDP). In researching this column, I was surprised to discover that consumer spending represents over 70% of gross domestic product. This struck me as ironic because, according to Hitwise search data, consumers searching for "recession" are not even clear on what the term means: they're searching for the definition of "recession," just like...
...their wireless connections.In contrast, the River Houses seem to still be awaiting a flood of signal. Adams House had by far the worst wireless situation, with a reported 36 percent dissatisfied and 16 percent very dissatisfied, landing a majority of the residents in the unhappy column. Clavery residents even admit to trying to pick up non-Harvard network signals to increase wireless capabilities.Joshua A. Kroll ’09, president of the Harvard Computer Society (HCS), says he uses a desktop computer most of the time to avoid wireless woes. “I know that my roommates...