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...instead of studying history at the macro and micro level, we will divide our two courses between the U.S. and the rest of the world. Even more impressive than these verbal acrobatics, exemptions to requirements have been eliminated; the general education program will have a faculty member at its helm; and, of course, the general education committee will have a new set of course categories to police. The faculty should be congratulated for this stunning revolution...
...only are we not asleep at the switch, but we are very much at the helm and managing our business...
Having an African-American like Tommy Amaker at the helm of your basketball program is thus far more than just a positive symbolic move given negative press. “I definitely felt like I had an advantage,” Roby says of his own days recruiting for Harvard basketball in the late 1980s. “There was a clear connection I could make with families, being an African-American male that was actually a living, breathing example of someone in the Ivy League. I was someone trying to get their son an Ivy education...
...students are born and bred overachievers, hypercompetitive by nature. Harvard undergraduates tend to be the sort of people who are practiced at delivering the exhortation that “winning isn’t everything” without a shadow of irony, yet completely disingenuously. Put them at the helm of make-believe armies in a campus-wide game of Risk and you’ll find yourself face-to-face with their darker side; a ruthless ambition to win so intense that anyone who dares get in the way had better watch...
President-elect Drew G. Faust is set to take the helm this summer, and she has yet to announce who will lead FAS and its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) when she takes office. The current FAS and GSAS deans plan to step down at the end of the academic year...