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...well if they step out and help and make some sacrifices” for the good of the team.He adds that this was a characteristic he focused on in his recruitment of prospective fencers.“I look for those few people who have the potential to function as team players,” he says. “I will bypass a great athlete in favor of someone who will contribute something to this team. That ultimately determines whether we have a winning program or not.”Brand is a native of Israel who came...
...with mandated single-sex housing. Additionally, the UC advocated reduced textbook costs for students on financial aid and encouraged the College to coordinate online resources to bring coursepack costs under control. The year ended with a final display of political fireworks. After the UC spun off its social programming functions to an independent, University Hall-funded College Events Board mid-semester, it had to consider what to do with its third wheel, the Campus Life Committee (CLC). Suggestions ranged from replacing CLC with a Educational Advoacy Committee, to creating a third UC committee dedicated outreach activities and student services...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers. We reiterate Kirby’s warning in his annual Letter to the Faculty this year, that “Harvard is otherwise at risk of becoming a great university with merely sub-par undergraduate teaching.” This, then, is the function and gravity of the curricular review. In short, it’s time to get moving. The review is the work of eight different committees, the most wide-reaching and controversial of which was the Committee on General Education. The Gen Ed report has generally been received favorably because there...
...house will have some renovation work done on it over the summer to reflect its changed function, according to Fifield, who added that the Seneca had “not ruled out leasing” some of the property for a short time while it is developed into the society’s headquarters...
...traditions of allowing ideas to be freely expressed, and Fast spoke and was listened to politely. He changed no one’s mind. Life went on as before. As students, we were proud of Harvard and its administration for its steadfast support of the notion that the function of a university is to be a marketplace of ideas, where any viewpoint, no matter how unpopular and even dangerous it may seem, is entitled to be heard with respect. We believed, as did the men and women who taught at Harvard, that the antidote for hateful ideas was the expression...