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Such a disappointing result is the rather unsurprising product of a one-year process conducted behind closed doors and largely driven by the narrow-minded agenda of a University President who, to judge by his repetitive gene-chromosome rhetoric, seems intent on turning Harvard into his alma mater, MIT. (Oddly enough, the sciences may well lose the most under the proposed revisions: a delayed concentration decision, “mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last...
Maya I. Soyre ‘07 woke up to her first day back at Harvard to find rotten news in her Wigglesworth doordrop. Soyre nearly spit out her poached egg when she read that her alma mater, Winsor Academy, had only been ranked second by the Wall Street Journal. Hoping that her Saint Anne’s alum roommate Isidore R. Hopkinson ’07 wouldn’t learn that her school had topped the list, Soyre hid her copy of the Journal behind her second-place squash trophies. Unfortunately Hopkinson had already heard the news...
...looked specifically at several top institutions, including his alma mater...
...give blindly and never reflect on the quality of their own experiences as students. To take a pointer from the gift committee’s playbook, think of the “improvements in the undergraduate experience for future students” your refusal to donate can effect. When alma mater comes after the pocketbook, it certainly is time for some reflection: not about whether her slush fund needs some cash, but about whether she has indeed earned lifelong loyalty and love. I believe that she hasn’t, but I respect all seniors’ prerogatives to make...
...Christopher Cox, R-Calif., a former member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty and an alum of both HBS and Harvard Law School (HLS), assailed his alma mater in a speech on the House floor Tuesday...