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Daniel Berman '79, a CUE member, said the University should not be strict in allowing students credit for study abroad because the University currently gives independent study credit for anything other than "lying on the beach or watching the grass grow...
Rosovsky's report on GSAS and the council's talk yesterday did not produce recommendations for change in the aid system. The report is designed "to generate discussion," Keenan said, and recommendations may grow out of it later
Whereas there must be administrative resistance to reversals of decisions in response to student pressure, the University must respond when the students have made the most important argument. The inertia of petty-bureaucrats cannot be allowed to subsume the best interests of the community. Harvard must change to grow, or else its "Living Memorials" will become mausoleums of poor judgement. Stanley W. Burrows...
Herzlinger adds she has seen women at the Business School grow more confident as their numbers grew. The same pattern appears in the real business world: as the number of women in executive positions continues to rise, "they and their male colleagues stop viewing an influential woman as Woman. Her distinguishing characteristic is no longer the biological characteristic," she says...
Periodically fashion and education grow nostalgic, and try to return to the way things were in the good old days. Harvard's new Core Curriculum, for example, harkens back to the narrower educational requirements of the early 1900s. The Core is part of a current national trend toward revising general education curricula, usually by tightening requirements and clarifying academic goals. But despite the impression fostered by the national media, Harvard's own administrators point out that the Core is neither the first nor the most radical educational reform of its kind. Many other institutions have almost simultaneously opted for programs...