Word: expectance
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...Since most of the gap is due to the way labor markets work, combined with inequality in family responsibilities, it is probably unrealistic to expect Harvard to have a big impact,” according to Iversen. But he added that Harvard “has a responsibility to educate about the underlying causes of gender inequality, which in turn may affect public policies...
...Professor of Computer Science Michael D. Smith, who was named Dean of the Faculty Monday, faces quite a challenge in uniting and inspiring the Faculty.The main business of the year for the full Faculty was to complete the Curricular Review, which was limping into its fifth year. One would expect that an opportunity to reinvent the meaning of a liberal education would draw Harvard’s academics out in droves. Yet anemic attendance at Faculty meetings—when the Faculty bothered to have them at all—served as depressing indicators of Faculty apathy. Unsurprisingly, the Curricular...
...didn’t mean to. Well, more like we didn’t expect to. At 4 p.m. on a Friday, we posted to our blog a video that a Yale senior had included in his investment bank applications—a ludicrous sequence that, if you believe what you see, shows off his 495-pound bench press, 120 mile per hour tennis serve, motivational schlock, and ballroom dance moves. As other blogs piled on, word spread fast—and faster still when we reported on his shady consulting firm, fake charity, and partially plagiarized book about...
...expect that when we all get together again in 10, 20, or 30 years, sports will always be a topic of conversation...
...council will make a large showing at each schools’ orientation activities in the fall. Though the Undergraduate Council endorsed the Stand for Security’s campaign to raise the wages of Harvard’s unionized security guards this spring, Laconi said that he does not expect the Graduate Council to play an active role in campus activism. “We don’t take part in taking stances on partisan political issues,” he said. Yet last year, the council supported a campaign to divest from the Sudan-linked oil company Sinopec...