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Dining. While there is still great room for improvement in meal plan flexibility and in the health and quality of the food, dining at Harvard has improved markedly. Four years ago, first-years were eating in the charming but old Union, with its foul-smelling washroom and eclectic seating; chick-wiches were not available from the grill; there was no Board Plus or Fly-By lunch option; frozen yogurt was in nary a house, and believe it or not, the food was less healthy and less edible. Verdict: Better...
...administration. Although President Neil L. Rudenstine seems as distant as ever--and although the Ad Board remains in dire need of reform to make it more accountable--at least Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 is no longer widely reviled. New to the post four years ago, Lewis was scorned for randomization (in fact only partially his doing), and for mishandling the restructuring of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Lewis apparently learned something from that difficult first year, at least in regard to public relations; it has been largely smooth sailing since. Lewis's only recent gaffe...
...there you have it. Thanks to the administration, faculty, students, alumni, even technology, Harvard College is better today than it was four years ago, in a variety of ways. That's not to say that these gains are all necessarily important, or even justified; I have argued in the past and continue to believe that seniors should consider not giving to the Senior Gift, for example, because Harvard has so much money and allocates it so poorly. Nonetheless, in a world where things are always rapidly changing, and often not for the better, it feels good to leave here knowing...
Twenty years ago federal scholarship aid, including Pell grants, represented nearly twenty percent of the College's scholarship budget. Today federal scholarship aid accounts for less than six percent of the College's scholarship program. In other words, as the needs of Harvard's scholarship students have risen, the College, not the federal government, has borne the full cost of meeting those increased needs...
...Treasury Department. And Stuart Eizenstat is happy. He's been promoted from his job as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs to be Summers' deputy. The only one unhappy is Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State and Treasury have fought a turf war behind the scenes over control of Washington's response to the Asian financial crisis and Russia's economic bailout. Summers will now have...