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...keep telling the eager high school seniors whom I interview each year as they apply to the College (and the parents of admitted students) that Harvard is a humane place that takes seriously its task of educating the whole student through its wonderful House system and extraordinary range of extracurricular activities...
...career in academia himself after graduating from Harvard, always recognized that his alma mater needed to keep students involved outside of the classroom as well as within it. Striking a chord that many undergraduates will recognize, Lewis warned Kirby in his Feb. 24 letter, “Extracurricular activities are, if nothing else, stress-relieving; I suspect that if the time students now spend on extracurriculars were spent instead in the libraries, we would have an even more serious mental health problem than...
...Harvard education, and they must not become so, Lewis understood, as he wrote to Kirby, that the administration “should look to pedagogy, the curriculum and advising as matters which, if improved, would make students happier with their academic experience without imposing limitations on their extracurricular life.” Summers insisted on the telephone that he shares Lewis’ concerns about maintaining extracurriculars; Kirby was unavailable for comment. Together—almost certainly with the help of über-dean-to-be Benedict H. Gross ’71—they must ensure that...
...country, it’s time to put aside our Darwinian impulses. Blocking should be based on friendship, and nothing else. Those unfortunate enough to find themselves in a blocking group that more closely resembles a political coalition will need to take advantage of House communities and extracurricular interests next year to find more genuine, trustworthy friends...
...went on to consolidate the dean of the College’s power—by taking a more active role in appointing House masters, restructuring the administrative hierarchy of his office and paying scrupulous attention to student services from advising to extracurricular space—in such a way that he became the most powerful dean of the College ever...