Word: formalisms
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...majority of the Houses were built in the 1930s under then-University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who saw residential college life as a way of “promoting a greater interest in things intellectual, supplementing and enhancing formal instruction...
...will take a respite from his hectic schedule to address Harvard College’s graduating class at 2 p.m. today in Tercentanary Theatre. Bernanke, a former Winthrop House resident, is the keynote speaker at Class Day, a celebration for departing undergraduates that traditionally takes on a less formal tone than tomorrow’s Commencement exercises. After several consecutive years of Class Day speakers with comedic backgrounds, such as Conan O’Brien ’85 and Al Franken ’73, Bernanke will be the second straight Washington insider, following former President Clinton. Last year...
...Professors receive no formal recognition for their work on theses, meaning that apart from the pleasure of teaching—something that shouldn’t be discounted—there is little incentive for faculty to advise them. While department heads sometimes recommend graduate students over professors, saying that they can devote more time to students, it’s unlikely that graduate students, who TF classes and are writing their own dissertations, are sitting on their hands. If they’re better advisers, it’s because they feel a greater sense of responsibility to students...
...molecular and cellular biology, students must submit a proposal to the department over the summer before getting the formal go-ahead. In history and literature, a committee looks over each student’s proposal and bibliography early in the year, providing written comments to the adviser. The history department, which had eight Hoopes Prize winners this year, requires its students to enroll in History 99, a small class that meets every two to three weeks. “I would be willing to guess we’re the most structured of any of the departments in the College...
Gillis said he organized yesterday’s event when he realized that Summers would not have a formal role in the Commencement ceremonies...