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...double loss of its junior-school headmistress and senior-school headmaster last year, the London Dulwich shipped out an acting headmaster to replace them. There's no sign of Dulwich dialing back on its overseas expansion. The franchise owners - an education-management firm linked to Dulwich, London, by alumnus and two-time Thailand Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun - will open two more schools in China: a junior school in Suzhou in 2007 and an upper-school joint venture with a leading Chinese high school in Beijing in 2008. Dulwich has plans for India, too. The trend has caught on: Shrewsbury School...
Michael T. Ty, a neurology resident at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals and a Harvard Medial School (HMS) alumnus, died unexpectedly April 3, as the result of a construction accident that killed two others as well. Ty, 28, was driving down Boylston Street when a 10-ton lift platform crashed down on his car. The construction accident also killed two workers who were building Emerson College’s new Piano Row residence hall and student center. Ty graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University and received his MD in 2004 from...
...views on what’s wrong with America. The consensus circles around two allegations. Some judge that elite university academics are lazy and complacent, while others have blamed the Faculty’s “political correctness”—which one alumnus defined as “exquisite sensitivity to minority issues.” Those who know that neither allegation is true leap to the conclusion that Summers was ousted by some tiny “cabal.” As the sponsor of the resolution that...
...editors: Re: “Virtual Veritas,” magazine, Apr. 13. At a recent round-table discussion with students, President Summers pledged to expand the for-credit distance education programs currently offered through the Harvard Extension School. As an alumnus of the Extension School and an adjunct professor at a community college, I have no objection to non-traditional venues of higher education. I also understand and appreciate the educational potential afforded by the Internet. Nevertheless, I must part company with the outgoing President on the issue of Internet education at Harvard. The offering of Internet courses...
...expressed discontent with the choice. “Considering past speakers, we were under the impression it would be someone with a recognizable social commitment,” said UPenn Senior Class President Pierre Gooding. At Yale, where graduates will hear a commencement speech from news anchor and Yale alumnus Anderson Cooper, one writer headlined a letter about Cooper’s selection to the Yale Daily News, “College fell short with speaker choice.” And Stanford senior Paul S. Wright wrote in an e-mail of his school’s selection of news...