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...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last May, when Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 introduced a motion calling for all courses of five or more students to be formally evaluated, he unexpectedly provoked a minor uproar. Several professors spoke against the motion, including Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. He strongly criticized the proposal, saying, “Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” Professor of German Peter J. Burgard went further, claiming...
...this past Wednesday night,” Shepard says. Phone-banking, street-corner canvassing, and even going door-to-door in regions where the stakes are high have become routine procedures for students in both parties. At last Thursday’s debate in Harvard Hall 202, sponsored by H-Vote, Dems leader Lesser and legislative director Kyle A. Krahel ’08 squared off against Jeffrey Kwong ’09 and Colin J. Motley ’10 of the HRC to answer questions posed by fellows from the Institute of Politics (IOP). Democrats took seats...
What do Bill Gates and Edwin H. Land have in common? Both are innovators in their fields. And both are Harvard dropouts. The lesser known of the two, Edwin H. Land, who died in 1991, was the founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Though he left Harvard in 1926, he obtained 500 patents (then second only to Thomas Edison), revolutionized the field of polarized lenses, and invented the Polaroid camera, according to the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
...Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...It’s very important when you choose a mate that you choose a person you really enjoy being with and that their values are the same as yours,” said former New Hampshire judge and partner of law firm Shaheen & Gordon, Bill H. Shaheen. His wife, Jeanne Shaheen, served as New Hampshire’s first woman governor from 1997 to 2003 and is now the director of the Institute of Politics...