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...report is not anything new. Rumors of some elusive Golden Age of Harvard academics––when professors and tutors "actually" cared about teaching, when graduate students did not need to publish-or-perish at the expense of instruction, and when learning was the rule, not the exception––have been circulating about campus since I arrived. Yet when it comes to undergraduate teaching (and cries for its improvement), things haven’t changed much in 300 years...
...Conducted by Hasty Pudding President Joshua M. Brener ’07, together with Cast Vice President Justin V. Rodriguez ’07, the roast wasted little time in hitting the first punch line: a Rodriguez reference to how apt a complement Johansson’s four Golden Globe nominations were to “her pair of ‘golden globes...
...happy retirement is the means to enjoy it. Roger de Haan ended up with more than enough money to bankroll his golden years when he decided to retire and sell Saga Group, his family's business, in late 2004. The British travel, media and financial-services company that targets older consumers attracted several major bidders, with London private-equity firm Charterhouse ultimately paying $2.4 billion. Not bad for what De Haan's father started 53 years earlier as a modest operator of guest hotels and tours in the English seaside resort of Folkestone...
...novel idea that liberal arts should teach “ways of learning.” This groundbreaking system envisioned that every student could be a mini-scientist, a mini-philosopher, and in the case of Literature and Arts C, a mini-starving artist. It was the Golden Age for education, and the Core Curriculum was welcomed in the streets as a liberator. Soon, order and happiness grew in the area as the oil flowed to the west from the democratic light of the Middle East?...
...Finally, at 2:45 p.m., two overseers enthusiastically confirmed that Drew Gilpin Faust would become Harvard’s 28th president.Board members continued to exit the building. Overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73 signalled his support for the president-elect by donning a crimson tie emblazoned with golden trees, the symbol of the Radcliffe Institute that Faust currently leads.Frances D. Fergusson, one of the three overseer members of the nine-person presidential search committee that recommended Faust for the post, emerged a little after three o’clock and described how Faust was informed of her official...