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Strauss--a founding member of the Capitol Steps--said he remembers sitting in Sanders Theatre as a Harvard first-year, and now enjoys performing on the very same stage...
...from the flash bulbs continually snapping around the Yard, one might guess that the most distinctive features of the Harvard landscape were an infamous bronze toe and an army of friendly squirrels. Less excitable residents might point elsewhere: to venerable architecture in the form of slate-roofed, red-brick first-year houses, antique classrooms, wide stone archways, marble staircases, heavy doors, high windows and ubiquitous commemorative plaques. Others might cite the iron fence circling the Yard and its largely closed gates, inviting the rest of the world to look but not touch...
Even those types of petitions that the Core Committee sanctions--and, to some extent, encourages--provide less flexibility than is claimed. For example, students can petition for Foreign Cultures credit for a full-year foreign language course beyond the first-year level. However, despite this provision, many foreign language courses--even those with substantial literary, historical and political components--do not pass muster with the Core Committee. The Spanish 35-36 sequence includes novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and an in-depth study of several South American countries, but petitions to receive Core credit for these courses have repeatedly been...
...since the implementation of randomization with the first-year class of 1995-96, Lewis reports that student satisfaction with Harvard's Houses has actually increased...
...also has been a strong proponent of smaller classes for undergraduates, touting Stanford's programs of first-year and sophomore seminars as a model for other colleges like Harvard...