Word: caps
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...cap on honors, approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in May 2002, restricts magna and summa awards to 20 percent of the graduating class and permits no more than 50 percent of the class to graduate summa, magna or cum laude. The policy will go into effect next year...
...proposed Core reform enhances student choice, we are skeptical about some of the other recommendations in the HCCR report that claim to do the same thing. The drastic reform of the concentration system that the report suggests, for example, would undermine the quality of a Harvard degree. The possible cap of 12 required courses per concentration—something that would affect all but 18 of the 40 concentrations—would limit the depth of instruction at the College. Also, in all but 11 of the concentrations, Honors and Basic requirements would be condensed into one set, making...
After the Brown loss came the less-than-stellar performances against Columbia and Penn, as Harvard was left with two tough losses to cap a season that began with so much promise for a team with 11 experienced seniors...
Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman, who served on the working group on concentrations, said that the recommendation of the report to cap concentration requirements at 12 came as a surprise despite a year of discussion...
Coleman wrote in an e-mail after that Faculty meeting that seven of the 14 concentration recommendations in the final report were not contained in the report of her group—and some, including the concentration cap, “do not mesh with the spirit of our discussions...