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Much like waffles on Sundays and gratuitously awkward ice cream bashes, reading period is revered as a venerable part of Harvard’s fabric. Yet T.S. Eliot, Class of 1909 and Henry B. Adams, Class of 1858 managed to graduate sans a break to cram between classes and exams. That’s right—reading period actually began a paltry 79 years ago, under the auspices of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell. “Reading period was initially a faculty benefit, and students benefited indirectly,” says Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor...
...this year heading an extensive academic planning process focused on brainstorming ways to reorganize some doctoral and masters programs. Among the proposals is the institution of a new doctoral program that would collaborate with the Kennedy School of Government and Business School to train educational leadership, according to Eliot Professor of Education John B. Willett. McCartney has “gotten the faculty thinking about the future again,” Willett said. The academic restructuring is occurring in anticipation of the school’s move to Allston. Like the School of Public Health, the GSE is slated...
...from Currier House James Sawalla Guseh II, Steve Y. Lee, Pablo M. Ros, Gregory J. Valiant, and Danny F. Yagan.Dunster House winners are William P. Deringer, Sarah E. Fawcett, Mary J. James, David M. Kaden, Iliana Montauk, Stuart J. Robinson, and William G. Woolston, and those honored from Eliot House are Amelia E. Atlas, Heather L. Brink-Roby, Annelisa H. Pedersen, and Rowena H. Potts.The prizewinners in Kirkland House are Kristian J. Bergen, Robert L. Cohen, Christine S. Y. Kim, Om L. Lala, and Anica C. Law.Leverett House had the most Hoopes this year with ten winners: Luke M. Appling...
Greg D. Schmidt ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears regularly...
...Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears regularly...