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Harvard has its weaknesses. They have been well-documented, and counter to perception, an unusually responsive administration has been addressing these weaknesses. Last spring, when a leaked internal memo showed survey results pinning student dissatisfaction on the usual culprits—distant professors, a lagging social life, and a dearth of “community”—a full fleet of initiatives were already underway. The Harvard College Curricular Review, Loker Pub, Lamont Café, and the hiring of a Greek-scene expert to oversee House community have sought to make omelets of Harvard?...
...fill the long-standing void in the first year experience created by ineffective and inconsistent advising. At present, most freshmen hear nary a peep from their advisers until move in week, at which point they are consigned to a single adviser—an overburdened freshman proctor or a distant and often inaccessible faculty member—with whom they briefly interact before drifting off into the rest of freshman year. Amazingly, the result has been good for many, in spite of the system. Now the new program will make it possible for freshmen to receive solid advising that connects...
Ellen Lake ’66 and her boyfriend Peter Cummings ’66, both Crimson editors and reporters, were also volunteering in Mississippi that summer. While she says she was shaken by the news of the murders, Lake still felt that danger was distant. It was only when she and a few friends, both black and white, drove down to a civil rights advocacy conference in Atlanta, Ga. the following spring that she began to sense how hostile things had become in the south...
...Elizabeth Bishop: “I suddenly felt how repressed she was, how distant, how self involved—how nature wasn’t really there, it was just Elizabeth Bishop floating through the world in this depressive haze...
...Orthopedics, in his time one of the most prominent orthopedic surgeons in the world. In my time he was wonderful, friendly and wise-a big, smiling, grandfather whose plain Midwestern manners stuck out like the sun among the darker heavenly bodies of the Upper West Side's professorial (read distant, arrogant) medical establishment...