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State Representative Alice K. Wolf said afterwards that the emphasis on the building’s scientific benefits represented a change from previous Harvard presentations of building projects, which she said have often focused on physical aspects of construction.
And though Summers acknowledged that Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71 bear responsibility for conducting the review, he offered specific priorities of his own, ranging from a call to provide students with “familiarity with...
This comment not only highlighted the great dissatisfaction among students with the advising system—a problem that Gross and others have said will receive very close attention in the curricular review—but also signaled a potential shift in curricular emphasis toward bodies of knowledge that students...
I was waiting to see what TIME would say about Fidel Castro's crackdown on Cuban dissidents [WORLD, May 19]. Tim Padgett's thoughtful and balanced appraisal of Oswaldo Paya, the Cuban dissident who stayed in the country to work for democratic reform, was worth the wait. Paya's drive...
Harvard changed little through the 17th century. The study of literature was added. There was an emphasis on logic, rhetoric, Greek, Hebrew, ethics and metaphysics and little focus on mathematics and the natural sciences.