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Even though Harper will not be at this year’s Commencement exercises, he says he’ll be having lunch in New York City with a current Law School student to discuss her career plans...
...place more emphasis on the things we take from the Harvard experience that cannot be found in textbooks. Back in the summer of 2002, the first hints of a Harvard education arrived in my mailbox: a small book of required reading meant to provide the fodder for freshman week discussions with members of the Faculty. The selection of essays has varied slightly from year to year, but the one mainstay has been Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”I thought of that essay the other day when I happened upon “Excellence...
...need for better teaching. Instead, it spent much of the year focusing on the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers—the most undergraduate-friendly Harvard president in recent history—while at other times it had difficulty even attaining quorums at its meetings to discuss undergraduate matters.By this fall, all of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s (HCCR) committees had submitted their final reports—an accomplishment that itself occurred nearly three years after the process began. Given the dedication of these committees’ members and the pressing need for change, this...
...four weeks of the season.”Confident in their coach and in their abilities, the Harvard rowers knew that they had the potential to challenge for the national championship. All they needed was the right approach.So before the races began, the varsity eight got together to discuss a new strategy.“We met up as a boat before the final and decided that the race plan that we had been using wasn’t good enough,” Kauble said. “We decided that we wanted to try and go out there...
...Avichai “Avi” Kremer, it is no coincidence that he has been a symbol of life since he was diagnosed last fall with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Since Kremer was first diagnosed, this second-year Business School student has raised over two million dollars, facilitated discussions between competing pharmaceutical companies, and founded two companies dedicated to discovering a treatment for ALS—commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kremer will graduate this week from the Business School and receive the prestigious Dean’s Award for his devotion to increasing...