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...Cline hopes the Lamont Café, set to open in September, will attract and isolate these incidents, leaving the rest of the libary to more studious individuals...
...event to make sure participants don't end up in the drink on race day. Local organizers, typically charitable or cultural groups, are responsible for land-based arrangements: tents, Porta Pottis, bringing in sponsorships, cultural activities, food services--anything that draws crowds and meets their needs. Some festivals attract more than 100 teams, each paying an entry fee of up to $2,500 for a corporate team of at least 20 paddlers...
...division. Harvard seems to be taking the bait.Nonetheless, new money and fresh blood will doubtless improve Harvard’s engineering and applied science programs, and at the graduate level, this ought to be applauded. There’s no question that the University’s ability to attract the very best engineers to do their work in an innovative, collaborative academic environment (read: Allston) is vital. But so far as undergraduates are concerned, the move may threaten the very foundation of Harvard’s educational philosophy: the liberal arts.At first glance, the creation of the new school...
...step down next month and remain on staff to guide the school through its transition. If approved by FAS, the new school will put Harvard on equal footing with institutions that house autonomous engineering schools and boast larger faculties. “It will allow us to continue to attract the kind of faculty and students we want at a time when all major engineering schools in the country are expanding their programs,” Venky, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, told a meeting of the FAS last week. Under the proposal—more than...
...Shahar’s popular Positive Psychology class, which drew 842 students this semester, the most of any College course. Siner said that Ben-Shahar encouraged him to start the group. Even though the course will not be taught next year, Siner said the group will continue to attract students. “It will appeal to a wide base of people still. Harvard students being overstressed and depressed won’t change because the course doesn’t exist,” Siner said. Many of the students who have expressed interest in the group have...