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Harvard pride runs in the family. Her brother, Luke, graduated from the College in 2001 and her sister, Emily, will enter as a first-year in the fall. At the head of her family is James W. Stoeckel ’74, an All-Ivy quarterback who won the Bushnell Cup as the league’s best football player...
...spring ritual of blocking, with all of its tense and sometimes bitter diplomatic maneuvering, was a more political ordeal for the Class of 2003 than for any first-year class since Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 randomized House assignments in 1995. In spring 2000, Lewis’ decision to cut the maximum blocking group size from 16 to eight students spurred a petition signed by over half the first-year class...
...that the College has been able to create greater gender balance in the Houses. The housing office gives the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, which conducts the lottery, a floor and a ceiling for allowable gender ratios in each House that are based on the composition of the first-year class as a whole. Since the reduction from 16 to eight, it has been easier to stay farther away from that ceiling and floor...
...addition to the pure desire for randomized Houses, administrators and masters hoped that the change would make it easier for rooming groups within blocks to live near one another. They also wanted to stop first-year entryways from forming large blocking groups that inevitably excluded a few students, as entryways are typically larger than...
...world may study Harvard, but how does Harvard study the world? The early answer would seem to be: rather well, here in Cambridge (we do teach 54 languages!), but rather fitfully, outside of zip code 02138. As I told our first-year students when they arrived in September: “You are here to learn, but your learning need not take place only here.” To that end, we issued new guidelines for study abroad, planned a series of new programs on five continents and established an Office of International Programs to promote, develop and manage...