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Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is lives in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...1870s, when Faust’s alma mater Bryn Mawr was pioneering in higher education for women, Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, doubted whether women’s “natural mental capacities” were up to the challenge. Co-education was, of course, unthinkable, even when bright young Bostonian women were pounding on the doors. Eliot could barely imagine the consequences of trying “…to teach together sets of persons, who like young men and young women, differ widely in regard to sensibility, quickness, docility...
...Juliet S. Samuel ’09, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House...
...Gomes offered a bit of a warning: “There’s only one Charles William Eliot. There’s only one Eliot inaugural, and we’ve had generations of efforts to try to equal that, and none have, so they should stop trying...
...look across the country, dumb rich kids are more likely to go to college than smart poor kids. The message of Harvard’s availability to low-income students was very much a shrouded and unclear one,” says Summers, who is now the Eliot University professor.And so, in February 2004, Summers announced the creation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), which would completely eliminate parental contributions from families earning less than $40,000 annually and reduce contributions from families making between $40,000 and $60,000 annually. In addition, HFAI also intensified the recruitment...