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...reporters and chauffeurs were soon joined on the increasingly crowded street by a Harvard police officer, who patrolled the crosswalk leading to the Barker Center. Inside the humanities building, a bust of John Harvard looked down on a few technicians setting up for the afternoon press conference.After over an hour without any movement from Loeb, a lone overseer, Ann M. Fudge, finally emerged at 2:20 p.m., smiling broadly.“You’ll find out soon enough,” she replied to a question about the board’s final decision. Pausing, she added...
Dozens of undergraduates gathered Friday afternoon to probe issues of individual identity and community building at the spring launch of the Phillips Brooks House Association’s (PBHA) “The Big Question” discussion series. The hour-long event featured an address by Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 and author of the critical book “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education.” This spring, for the first time, “The Big Question” discussions will be held...
...study showed that once a laser pulse is shot into one sodium cloud—known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—it is signficantly compressed and deccelerated. “The light pulse is slowed from 186,000 miles per second to 15 miles per hour, and is also spatially compressed from 1 kilometer to less than half the width of a hair,” Hau wrote in an e-mail. From the beginning of the experiment, a control laser is continually fired through the BECs. When the experimental laser pulse enters the first...
...quality and a recap of new-and-improved measures for allotting funds to student groups were among the items presented at a short session of the Undergraduate Council (UC) yesterday. The meeting, which was called to order at 7:20 p.m. and dismissed before the top of the hour, began with President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 acknowledging Drew Gilpin Faust’s recent appointment as president of the University. According to Petersen, who, together with Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ‘09, had spoken with Faust at a reception yesterday, the new president...
...your speechless soul breaks through the dead habits of the mind. ‘Doubt’ is nothing less than an opportunity to reenter the Present.” That’s a tall order for any play, particularly one that clocks in at about an hour and a half. So it feels odd to say that “Doubt” should be tighter, quicker, faster-paced–anything to wake up the play’s latent vitality...