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Former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson ’46, whose reforms catalyzed a revolution in modern medical education around the world, died last Wednesday due to complications from a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 84 years old.Tosteson held the deanship for 20 years from 1977 to 1997—a transformational period during which the Medical School overhauled its teaching methods, restructured its academic departments, and increased its endowment nearly ninefold.“He had all the necessary clarity and force of intellect, the capacity to lead and persuade...
...periodically, the idea resurfaces. Most of the time, it’s in the form of a complaint as in, “Why the hell are they cutting hot breakfast? This is Harvard,” or “Why haven’t they fired the Dean of the College who sends asinine emails about the nuances of shuttle committee proceedings but doesn’t care to notify us about the drug-related dormitory murders occurring while she is sending out her asinine emails...
...HOME AT HARVARDThough Greene originally chose Princeton over Harvard, in the summer before his freshman year he started to doubt that Princeton’s pastoral setting was ideal for a teenager used to the bustle of New York City. Weeks before school began, Greene called a Harvard dean and asked for his spot back.Harvard gave him just one week to accept, and this time, Greene was certain he made the right choice.Eero P. Simoncelli ’84, Greene’s roommate of three years, insisted that in college he and Greene were not stereotypical physics nerds?...
After last month’s announcement that late night shuttle service might be eliminated as part of a round of sweeping budget cuts, students erupted in protest, citing safety concerns that would arise if the decision were to go through. But a week later, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds sent an e-mail to the undergraduate population announcing that, pending further inquiry, shuttles will continue to run after 1:30 a.m. from Sunday to Wednesday next year. However, the administration remained mum on cutbacks to daytime shuttle service. Hammonds and several College administrators faced intense criticism from...
...opportunity to take the test multiple times consequence-free gives wealthier students an edge, as they tend to be the ones who can afford the time and money to do so. It puts further emphasis on an already overemphasized test. Just this past September, a committee chaired by Harvard Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 declared the SAT an incomplete gauge of a student’s college-readiness and we wholeheartedly concurred. Then, upon learning that Baylor University had recently paid almost 900 incoming freshman to retake the SATs in an effort...