Word: grosse
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...think all of the new spaces get a lot of use, and I’ve gotten some positive feedback about the activities that take place there,” Gross wrote in an e-mailed statement. “It’s now up to the students to make them their...
...MAGIC OF GROSS...
...Benedict H. Gross ’71, who left the deanship this summer, was different. A quiet advocate for undergraduates in the face of occasionally fearsome resistance from fellow administrators, Gross spent his five years at the helm assembling an impressive legacy. Beyond the physical monuments to his tenacity—the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Lamont Library Café, the Student Organizations Center at Hilles, and the New College Theater—Gross presided over the most productive half-decade of curricular change in recent years...
...Harvard College Curricular Review and for the underwhelming new General Education curriculum that it produced. But his tenure nevertheless produced a stunning renaissance in undergraduate advising, including the first comprehensive, fully-funded peer advising program in the College’s history. The Classes of 2010 and 2011 have Gross to thank for the delay in concentration choice and for the College’s formal recognition of secondary fields...
...Gross occasionally came under fire for the apparently affected frivolity that he injected into the administration’s priorities. Camp Harvard, the Harvard Carnival, the Harvard State Fair, Yardfest, and other sundry circuses threw open the doors of University Hall—quite literally—to undergraduates, while a new College Events Board was furnished with a $200,000 programming budget. Derisive comments from predecessors and talking heads aside, the initiatives have been well-received. Their success has prompted alumni to give generously and, in many cases, directly to the College through the new Dean?...