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...overarching commitment which I expect to frame everything I undertake will be to encourage and enable Harvard to think and act more like a university,” Faust wrote, “a place in which we are not inhibited by intellectual or bureaucratic boundaries, a place which seems both intimate in its collegiality and immense in its intellectual scope, both welcoming and endlessly challenging to all of us privileged to be part...
...decidedly less sexy causes—including maintenance costs and utility bills that the entire FAS incurs. While many of these expenditures benefit the College indirectly, they do not accomplish the goal that the fund’s name would seem to imply and many donors seem to expect: to give back to undergraduate life at Harvard College...
...course, I can’t say that for sure. Though today’s afternoon exercises are (technically) “the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association,” don’t expect an open-forum “town meeting” out of New England’s Puritan past. On matters of import, “Analysis Grammatical, Logicall and Rhetoricall” is relegated to English-language newsprint...
...college counselors in the United States is 500 to one—in California the ratio is as high as 1,000 to one—and many high schools in the increasing number of communities that are facing severe economic challenges have eliminated college counseling altogether. We expect that the move away from early admission will assist counselors in sharpening the focus of the admissions process on its most important goal—helping all students find the right match regardless of their family’s financial circumstances...
...Don’t get me wrong; as anyone would expect, Harvard students learn a lot of facts, concepts, and even “approaches to knowledge” that the Core tries, usually painfully, to impart. After four years at the College, I understand most of economics, can hold my own in discussions on medieval literature, and discourse on various theories of justice...