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What do metalsmithing, manners, and Microsoft Excel have in common? If Jay M. Harris and the Undergraduate Council’s ideas come to fruition, you could spend your first January term, or “J-term,” taking a three-week course in such subjects. For 45 minutes at last night’s Undergraduate Council (UC) meeting, Harris, the chair of the Gen Ed Committee, and Council members traded opinions about a J-term, the optional winter term in January that will be implemented along with the new calendar in 2009-2010. Debate focused...
...first iteration of the accelerator, the committee reviewed 27 pre-proprosals and 13 final submissions. Kohlberg added that the University hopes to build on the accelerator model with a similar fund for engineering and applied sciences. That fund “is very likely that it will come to fruition in the next two or three years,” he said. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...first time, I’m hearing that we’re looking at the big picture,” he said. “This really have the opportunity to work, to see it come to fruition is exciting...
...Curricular Review appears to finally be making progress, albeit slowly. Although recommendations in the April 2004 Report on the Harvard College Curricular Review proposed calendar reform, only now is the proposal coming to fruition. In the past, we have criticized the anticipated calendar change and its complimentary January term (J-term). But given that we do have a J-term, the administration should make the options for J-term as inclusive as possible. In the J-term we envision, Harvard would offer multiple options for students in January, beyond just an extended vacation for the entire period. For example...
...took for granted - there were no schools, and certainly no medical attention available. I liked the Sherpas and I admired them and I just thought, well, maybe there's something I can do. Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition. So once the Sherpas said that the main thing they wanted was a school, I was determined that I would raise the funds. So we went ahead and built a school and hospital in 1966. We now have 30 schools and a couple of hospitals and a dozen medical clinics...