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...Committee on Undergraduate Education is presently engaged in a transition of great consequence. The fundamental structure of our core academic program is in flux. The very organization of our undergraduate education may be overhauled. Nothing, we imagine, could possibly be more demanding of the Committee??s time. We refer, of course, to their proposal to increase the time awarded students for travel between classes—assuming, of course, that someone bothers to create more courses that actually count toward General Education. “Harvard time”—the colloquial name given our unofficial...
...Senate committee led by John F. Kennedy ’40 was commissioned to create a list of the five greatest senators in the legislative body’s history. Kennedy discussed the committee??s criteria in selecting these five Senate members—who turned out to be Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Robert Taft, and Robert La Follette, Sr.—in an article for the New York Times Magazine. The chosen senators, Kennedy wrote, displayed “statesmanship transcending party and State lines” and “leadership...
...part of the College’s preparations to “renew” its 12 upperclass Houses, the House Program Planning Committee??including student representatives—recently ventured out of the Harvard bubble in search of sage wisdom from Yale and Princeton. This trip, along with the distribution of a student survey and the creation of the HPPC in the first place, deserves praise, since such actions demonstrate the administration’s interest in obtaining some level of student input during the House renewal process. Yale and Princeton both embarked on large-scale construction...
...years of rooting for Harvard athletics. And I like beer, and kegs, and tailgates that don’t end just as the game begins. Let’s just say, Harvard has never really been the place for me. Let me also say that the Harvard Faculty Committee??s decision to limit our tailgate in this way shows they’re out of touch with the student body and don’t really give a flying rat’s arse what students think and what students care about...
...months later, while the group was on what was called a “little hiatus,” Sundquist was selected to serve as the committee??s only student representative—though the College had explicitly rejected the idea of undergraduate participation for several months...