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...Ibby’s departure, Harvard loses its leading advocate for the uniqueness of the first-year experience. For many of our students, life in the Yard highlights for the first time the need to balance self-reliance and independence with mutual and shared responsibility. Ibby’s sensitivity to this tension-—as a compassionate mentor and a fair disciplinarian-—has made her a model for first-years and proctors, alike. She has made first-years?? lives better...
Stale bagels and lukewarm coffee will no longer be first-years?? only late-night on-campus fare...
...We’re all Harvard people so we’re pretty resourceful, so we were pretty impressed with ourselves,” Shakir said of the incoming first-years?? ability to find the tentative housing assignments...
...comic book and film touting its advantages—was apparently successful: 25 percent of the Class of 1954 applied for one of the three programs in 1950, a total that rose to 40 percent the following year. The Air Force unit saw applicant interest increase to about 120 first-years??almost double the tally from 1949, a greater increase than either the Army or Navy programs...
Finally, the report’s recommendation to make Freshman Seminars mandatory is unnecessary. While the program is excellent on the whole, and it could surely benefit from expansion, making Freshman Seminars mandatory will only reduce the quality of the seminars and the flexibility of first-years?? schedules. The quality of a seminar is entirely dependent on the enthusiasm of the students and the professor. Making Freshman Seminars mandatory would involve engaging faculty who are less eager to teach a Freshman Seminar and students who are less likely to get into one that they’re interested...