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...that students are generally more interested in getting A’s than getting some, offers free couple’s counseling to undergraduates. So, for the sake of everyone whose intimate time involves more make-up sex than making love, FM sent its token faux amorous couple to duke it out with the help of a certified referee...
...Kennedy School policy research group received a $1.46 million grant last week from a charitable foundation devoted to, among other issues, environmental conservation. The grant will fund a three-year program by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, aimed at finding methods to reduced greenhouse gases. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation chose to give Harvard funds from its $100 million Climate Change Initiative because of the University’s prolonged focus on the issue, according to Kelly S. Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group. “The fact that Harvard...
...magic formula for what makes a good teacher, but there is general agreement on some of the prerequisites. One is an unshakable belief in children's capacity to learn. "Anyone without this has no business in the classroom," says Margaret Gayle, an expert on gifted education at Duke University, who has trained thousands of teachers in North Carolina. Another requirement, especially in the upper grades, is a deep knowledge of one's subject. According to research on teacher efficacy by statistician William Sanders, the higher the grade, the more closely student achievement correlates to a teacher's expertise...
...pretension and honest relationship with its own history. In a way, the architecture of Harvard is an extension of its traditional attitude that its achievements should speak for themselves. (I don’t mean to pick on our Ivy League neighbors: Boston College, the University of Chicago, and Duke, to name a few, regularly advertise their flashy “gothic” campus in admissions materials despite having come into existence some considerable time after the Middle Ages...
Most of all, I came to appreciate the sense of ownership Harvard has over its sensible New England architecture that schools modeled after foreign designs can’t claim. Though the style may be utilitarian and moderate, it certainly is unique among other American colleges. Duke looks like Princeton, which looks like Yale, which looks like Oxford, but Harvard just looks like Harvard. That unique, redbrick identity is more precious than any sculpted New Haven bell tower...