Word: first-years
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Enter Harvard administrators who, in everything from University President Lawrence H. Summers’s address to the first-year class to last year’s commencement ceremonies, optimistically encourage students to use the skills they’ve gained at Harvard to benefit people other than themselves. We get an earful from Summers as well as swarms of House tutors who constantly talk up public service, post-graduate fellowships and overseas volunteer work in impoverished countries. Sounds great, but for the majority of students who don’t get $20,000 to feed starving children in Ethiopia...
...will miss Blair Hornstine at Harvard this fall, Blair Hornstine least of all. Her life would have been miserable, as Quasimodo in the ivory tower, the H-bomb for first-year women waiting for word of their roommates and a time bomb for Harvard’s legal counsel—no doubt relieved that Harvard was spared the dreaded little envelope, a lawsuit rejecting Harvard’s rejection...
...additional 33 students also signed up to run for the council’s first-year social committee...
Kagan also addressed the issue of curricular reform, noting that HLS still uses the same first-year curriculum that former Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell put into place more than a century...
...about the physical changes, but I hope that Dean Kagan is as committed to the academic changes she discussed as well. There are a lot of things that need big scary changes, like the first year law [program] where the legal writing is too compartmentalized,” HLS first-year Jennifer Carter said...