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Past Levenson winners have included Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach and Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick F. MacFarquhar
...word "chemistry" has been so often associated with this team, you'd have thought Dudley Herschbach put the squad together himself...
Last week at a meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), Harvard Registrar Georgene B. Herschbach presented a proposal which called for reducing spring and fall final exam periods from nine to eight days. The proposal is apparently designed to solve two problems with the current exam schedule...
...begin with, the spring exam period typically ends on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, which "causes all sorts of problems," according to Herschbach. Additionally, an average of 20 students a semester submit requests to reschedule their Saturday exams due to religious conflicts. An added benefit of shorter exam periods would be one more day of precious intersession...
...strongest argument in favor of the plausibility of a new calendar is the simple and undeniable fact that most colleges in the nation use it. Registrar Georgene Herschbach was perfectly willing to move to the new schedule when it was proposed two years ago--and in fact estimated that it could have been implemented in as little as two years. Yet Harvard stodginess--combined with some genuine, if misguided, concern for the quality of our education--prevented it from advancing...