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University President Drew G. Faust will attend this year’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony during Commencement, continuing a new precedent set by her predecessor Lawrence H. Summers. According to Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake, Faust will be “part of the program,” although he did not say what her precise role would be. Summers spoke at the commissioning ceremony each year as Harvard president in an effort to show support for students participating in ROTC. Harvard has had a fractious relationship with ROTC since its removal from campus...
...riches is a cornerstone of Harvard culture; we don’t wear insignia clothing, we expertly understate our own talents and accomplishments, sometimes to excess, and we’re only ever keen to admit that we go to Harvard—“drop the H-bomb,” that is—when we’re trying to pick someone up at a bar. (It works. Sometimes.) Of course, we’re deeply (but secretly) pleased every time the Harvard admissions rate loses a point or two—we?...
...play out the tournament with this many registrants.” Canaday residents comprised a staggering 170 of the 225 registered participants for IM tennis this spring. “If we flooded this, we had a very definite chance of winning,” Canaday resident Spencer H. Hardwick ’11 said. According to the announcement by the Frosh IM staff, the organization of the tournament was changed to parallel the house format, with matches consisting of one men’s singles, one women’s singles, and one mixed doubles. Each dorm is also...
...literal proximity that does much to decrease the symbolic distance between the power poles within the ivy-covered gates of Harvard Yard. The College’s reasons for eliminating freshman housing in Mass. Hall last year left much to be desired. While former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 claimed that the dormitory lacked a critical mass of students, Mass. Hall was usually home to a notoriously tight-knit dorm community. And even now that the College will have to rent the residential space that it once owned from the University, the benefits...
...increases, Yale Law School and Medical School came up with similar financial aid initiatives this week. A month after Harvard Law School announced that it would eliminate tuition for third-year law students who commit to spending five years in public service, Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 unveiled the school’s own assistance programs for students also planning to enter public service. The four-part initiative will raise the baseline income below which loans are forgiven from $46,500 to $60,000 to aid middle-income graduate students, double the number...