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With the yield for the Class of 2012 projected at 76 percent—lower than the initially reported 78 percent—Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that the admissions office will be taking more than the originally reported 150 to 175 students off the waitlist this year...
Eight Belles died on the altar of the quick buck. About that, even the most stalwart horse-racing fans can agree. Andrew Beyer, dean of America's racing writers, explained the death of the Kentucky Derby runner-up by noting that thoroughbreds are, in fact, overbred. They are no longer created with robust careers in mind; their life goal is a couple of quick wins in Triple Crown races, followed by retirement to a stud farm. "Modern commercial breeders produce horses in order to sell them, and if those horses are unsound, they become somebody else's problem," Beyer wrote...
...Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, William R. Fitzsimmons '67, who has seen over three decades of admitted classes, described this admissions cycle as the "most unusual and most unpredictable in my admissions career...
...Anderson’s enrolled at Harvard were assigned some variation of “anders@fas.harvard.edu,” either with the addition of a first initial or numbers.At yesterday’s Committee on College Life meeting, administrators discussed the e-mail addresses currently offered by FAS. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd called the current resrictions for usernames “dehumanizing.”“I’m all for anything that anyone can do to allow them to use their full names,” she said.The algorithm currently used...
...don’t think this is going to fly,” interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam said. But he then added, “I am strongly in favor of it.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...