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...didn’t score in terms of putting,” Shuman said. But it’s more likely that little mistakes piled up on the Crimson throughout the day. The Yale University Golf Course, known for its severely undulating greens, mentally taxes players with the constant demand for precision drives and iron shots. “This course is really about staying focused and grinding it out,” Shore said. “The way to score well is to focus and accept that you’re going to make a couple of bogeys...
...Farm” in its humor column. Among Harvard writers, only John Updike ’54 managed to publish in the magazine at an earlier age.Rich and Updike are, not incidentally, both former presidents of the Harvard Lampoon. (Crimson form, tradition, and a tinge of institutional jealousy demand that I now describe the ’Poon as a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.) And, yes, Rich is the younger son of vaunted New York Times columnist Frank Rich ’71. That could generate some publicity...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wants to overturn the law of supply and demand...
Clearly, the supply of social science professors isn’t keeping pace with student demand. So as the Faculty increases its size over the next three years, you might expect that growth would be focused on the social sciences...
...hard to disagree with Knowles’ statement that “even if…there was hardly any student interest in physics or philosophy…intellectual life in the FAS would be unacceptably impoverished if it did not include physicists and philosophers.” Student demand should not entirely rule faculty appointments, but it should at least be taken into account, lest the intellectual life of social science concentrators (the majority of students) be “unacceptably impoverished” by their lack of faculty contact...