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...Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 says that many more than the 2,000 applicants Harvard accepts each year could be successful at Harvard, a fact that makes the College’s admissions decisions all the more challenging??and makes them sometimes appear all the more arbitrary to those on the outside...
Kirby, who resigned in January under pressure from University President Lawrence H. Summers, acknowledged the “unexpectedly challenging?? events and “often tumultuous discussions” of this winter and last spring...
...performing a “challenging?? move when she took a surprising fall, she says. Instead of stopping the fall, her support ropes pulled her at the wrong moment and her heel slammed into the rock...
...science professor. As a professor, Moss is just as talented and efficient. His students say that he is always available for one-on-one conversation, relaxed and easygoing, but a strict taskmaster that keeps the class on schedule.“All in all, this class is tremendously challenging??to your patience, to your time-managing, etc—but it really pays you off with a beautiful sense of accomplishment,” Patino says, “that you created a tangible roll of motion that, in working on it so much, carries a very distinct...
...we’ I mean those of us gathered around this table, assume that movies and books must be ‘challenging?? in some way to justify their existence. But low-brow entertainment isn’t wholly devoid of value.” The class put on their Serious Thinker faces and nodded in that faux-contemplative way that shows neither agreement nor disagreement...