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...they are part of a team.“It certainly can breed a little bit of competition, which is healthy,” says Hauser. “We want to see who can get across the best lectures.”Team teaching can be a training ground for those starting out as professors. “If it’s a team in spirit, I think that it’s a tremendous experience for faculty to be brought into, to see exactly what happens behind the scenes,” says Fixsen. If there...
Social life for Harvard undergraduates defies easy categorization. For some, social life means late nights packed in the ground floors of certain Mt. Auburn St. mansions (or mock-Flemish castles), and for others, it means room parties and events organized by House Committees (HoCos). For many, social life means long hours spent with one’s extracurricular activity of choice, and for the campus, it means the occasional school-wide event. The latter three incarnations all saw, by and large, improvements this year as the College dean’s office, the president’s office...
Ballasted with 370 years of precedent and tradition, Harvard is the flagship of higher education. But it plows ahead in straight lines, changing little as the years tick on and as it loses ground to more agile institutions which constantly innovate and reinvent themselves. If Harvard is to navigate the serpentine channel that lies ahead and still remain at the forefront of higher education, it must overcome its overwhelming inertia. But the course is difficult, and will require a bold, visionary, and audacious helmsman to chart.For that role we turn to a small crew of 11 who will steer Harvard...
...applied and was given a scholarship to a private Catholic school in the third grade, and soon hit the ground running. She quickly overcame the English barrier, learning much of the language by watching old sitcoms, including “The Cosby Show” and “Small Wonder.” By the end of the third grade, she was nearly fluent...
...share with my peers and mentors here. And while I’m grateful for my time in the classroom, I hope that Harvard will continue to promote “camp Harvard,” at least enough to allow future undergraduates to discover this lesson on the ground rather than from the pedestal. Lauren A.E. Schuker ’06, who was president of The Crimson in 2005, is an English and American literatures and languages concentrator in Kirkland House...