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...campus in 1985, Themba Ngcobo had hoped he would have reason to return in the future. This weekend, he fulfilled that wish when he flew from South Africa to Cambridge to visit his son for Freshman Parents’ Weekend. The array of College-sponsored events focusing on the first-year experience allowed parents like Ngcobo—marked by their ubiquitous crimson nametags—to explore the many facets of freshman life. Many parents praised the wide range of events for providing them with a glimpse into their children’s lives at Harvard. Parents attended normally...
...After a couple years of academic planning by Bloom’s associate deans, the School of Public Health rolled out an alternative, case-based core curriculum this fall for its first-year students. Already, about 40 percent of the 150 first-year students opted to study under the new curriculum...
...Dakotah Lee Sanford, a sixth-grader at the Tobin School who participated in the first-year program last year, is enrolled in the after school class for returning students...
...talk was an astounding acknowledgement of the political instability in the world, combined with a determined resolution to solve the problems,” said Vibha K. Kagzi, a first-year student at the Harvard Business School...
...categories spanning A+ to F. Second-year students, whose fate in the transition was most uncertain, will graduate with a transcript with grades under both systems. They will receive letter grades through this year, and then switch to the pass/fail system as third-year students. Latin honors will be determined by a student’s performance during all three years. In an e-mail sent to the student body, Kagan wrote that delaying the transition until next year for second-year students would allow them to demonstrate improvement from their first year. At a town hall meeting earlier this...