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Last academic year, securing a professorship at Harvard was close to impossible. Only nine professors joined the ranks of FAS, as Dean Michael D. Smith had imposed a near-complete freeze on faculty hiring in a bleak fiscal climate...
...You’ve got to understand what Cambridge was like then. It was really decayed, basically like Pittsburgh,” he said, adding that Harvard Square was a haven in bleak, industrial Cambridge...
Weintraub, along with Kuld, provided much of the skill on the court and motivation off of it that helped the team stay focused, even when things were looking bleak...
...bleak fiscal climate, various graduate humanities programs at Harvard provide students career-counseling services while they also bolster their students’ academic interests...
...Smith said that the school faces financial hurdles ahead, in the form of a greater demand on its financial aid program, a slightly larger incoming class at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and building plans that have been put on hold in light of the bleak fiscal climate...