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...role in the decision-making processes of the University, largely oblivious to the short-term decisions that affect our own undergraduate experience and disinterested in long-term projects that will affect future classes. The student response to the Faculty’s inability to muster the quorum needed to expand the course evaluation system? Silence. And when the Undergraduate Council seemingly forgot to fill student representative seats on the curricular review committees, it was more of the same. This widespread student apathy has obvious and unfortunate consequences for life on campus. More troubling, however, is what our college experience...
...which has about 80 concentrators a year, has met with some success through a system of faculty-led tutorial and conference courses; its student-faculty ratio of less than 7 to 1 helps as well. The number of freshman seminars has soared, Harvard is midway through an effort to expand the Faculty by 15 percent, and the ongoing curricular review aims to increase faculty-student interactions by raising the number of small classes and promoting opportunities that foster such dialogue. But most of the curricular review has focused on sexier issues like general education. The future of the Core Curriculum...
...Lorsch posits that Harvard’s growth—internally and internationally—in recent decades may have created an opportunity for the Overseers to expand their role...
...leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program for science majors, designed to acquaint budding scientists with the philosophy of their subject. Latest reports have it that they are reading about expanding universes. Even professorial families may expand to keep pace with the fashion; professors may soon be able to get special grants to educate their children—provided they have children. We agreed with Malthus in approving this kind of growth. Rising figures, however, were not restricted to the University population...
...admitted in the spring of 1956, by 200 students. The easing of the University-wide overcrowding problem became a theme of the University administration that year, led by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. In a number of public speeches, Pusey stressed the need to expand the University’s infrastructure to accommodate the current number of enrolled students and also outlined a vision for a larger campus that would enable the College to admit even more applicants.Pusey laid the groundwork for the physical expansion of the University in a speech to the Associated Harvard Clubs...