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Harvard’s little red book, the Handbook for Students, is four hundred and twenty five pages long. Of those pages, two are devoted to student-run businesses, one details the “care of furnishings and personal property,” and seven are reserved for information about Harvard’s libraries. Only one miniscule section is reserved for “honesty”—about the same amount of space allotted to the section on “Nonpayment of Telephone Bills.”This is more than a mere inequity...
...related to health policy, Curhan said, including one required course, “General Education 186: Introduction to Healthcare Policy.”The descriptions of approved secondary fields will be posted on a new website, since none of the secondary fields will be ready to appear in the handbook for students, Kenen said.“Freshmen and sophomores will be able to check that website on a regular basis to see if their dream secondary field can come true,” said David J. Roxburgh, director of undergraduate studies in the History of Art and Architecture department.The...
...into satire, a genre that's easy to like but hard to love. It's thin, it's shallow, it dates easily, it rarely feels larger than the thing it's making fun of. A case in point would be Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, a charming-enough outing about expatriates in Prague that has approximately one joke that gets steadily less funny over time. An exception would be Shteyngart's second book, Absurdistan (Random House; 352 pages), a satire that is profoundly funny, genuinely moving and wholly lovable...
...process in the penultimate year of his appointment must condense the record of his achievements in scholarship, teaching, and citizenship for a dossier.Unlike a college application, though, the manila folder containing a tenure candidate’s dossier may be up to 10 inches thick. According to the Appointment Handbook for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it may enclose such documents as the department chair’s case statement, the candidate’s curriculum vitae and research statement, teaching evaluations, and over a dozen three-to-four page letters. Every senior faculty member in the candidate?...
Neither Harvard College’s Administrative Board Guide for Students nor the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Student Handbook mention the ramifications of non-academic plagiarism...