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...make increasing financial aid and fellowships a top priority of her tenure. Summers’ permanent appointment of McCartney prompted a spontaneous standing ovation of the GSE faculty, according to professors present at the outgoing president’s announcement. “As I said to the Ed School faculty today, some choices a Harvard president makes are hard. This one was easy,” Summers said last night. “I really think she’s the best person for the job.” Willett has worked closely with McCartney since she joined...
...Plane Pain,” op-ed...
Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply.The Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working out some...
...peppered his speech with notes of reconciliation. “Difficult marriages sometimes end, and so it is with ours,” he began. “Life is too short for anger, and yet, it is too long not to reflect on experience.”GEN ED IN LIMBOBeyond the good-byes of the two most powerful members of the Faculty, the meeting foreshadowed the looming debate over what will succeed the Core Curriculum.Kirby announced that incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok had called on the dean to appoint a committee of professors to draft legislation...
...withholding the film was, in its way, clever publicity. Newspapers ran stories about what might be in the film. The Louvre Museum, where the action of the book-film begins, has announced it will be giving tours explaining works of art mentioned therein. 60 Minutes got Ed Bradley to huff and puff about ripping the lid off the Priory of Sion fraud, which was very old news indeed. (I'd read about a month earlier in that hard-hitting compendium of investigative reporting, Fodor's Guide to the Da Vinci Code.) The TV news networks have lavished Scott Peterson-type...