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...wake of a year-long assessment of space and facilities that was completed last summer, the College announced a series of changes over the course of this academic year, intended to help ease the burden of overcrowding on students...
...little more than $30 per barrel.3 Since then, crude oil prices have increased more than fourfold, proportionally about as much as in the 1970s. Now, as in 1975, adjusting to such high prices for crude oil has been painful. Gas prices around $4 a gallon are a huge burden for many households, as well as for truckers, manufacturers, farmers, and others. But, in many other ways, the economic consequences have been quite different from those of the 1970s. One obvious difference is what you don't see: drivers lining up on odd or even days to buy gasoline because...
...This year, without the burden of convening for admission decisions in November, Harvard’s admissions office was able to join forces with the admissions offices of Princeton and Virginia to continue recruiting into November. Previously, recruiting trips had to finish by October so that early applications could be evaluated...
After fellow Kazmaier winner Julie Chu ’06-07 graduated from Harvard, the burden of leading the Crimson’s offensive attack was placed squarely on Vaillancourt’s shoulders. For Vaillancourt to succeed in this endeavor, she would have to make significant adjustments to her game...
...limit admission to the most academically proficient will be the easy way to dispose of the growing burden of applications, but the Committee on Admissions should attempt, as much as possible, to continue its policy of seeking a diverse college body. To do so will require an increasingly larger admissions staff, but the money expended will be worthwhile if Harvard avoids a mechanistic, mathematical selection of admissions candidates...