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...heading off to work on 28 different service projects, ranging from landscaping to preparing meals for the homeless. With participants from all nine of the University’s schools, and with $20,000 of funding, the inaugural Day of Service featured collaboration across the University and aimed to inform students of existing volunteer opportunities. Organizers said they hope to make it an annual event and eventually an international one involving alumni clubs around the world. During the breakfast, Faust took the opportunity to remind students of the obligations conferred upon them. At Harvard, “we have access...
According to the Harvard University Registrar’s Office, lotteries are currently the domain of individual professors, who have the freedom to inform their students of results at any time. To solve the problem of late lotteries, the College should mandate that all lotteries end by 5 p.m. on the Thursday before Study Card day, at least 24 hours before study cards are due. That would give students enough time to see their advisers, shop additional courses, and make informed decisions...
...upstairs, near the brand-new Armani wing, where a customer or two browsed suits, the fitting rooms, which double as sales associates' offices, were abuzz with personal fittings. Any free time for associates would go to calling clients to inform them of the perfect snug Balenciaga jacket or lavish Nina Ricci ball gown to fill out their holiday wardrobes. Of course, part of this is standard luxury protocol at Neiman Marcus, where you will rarely find a knit that isn't cashmere and where the shoes are Manolo Blahnik but in exclusive styles a customer won't see anywhere else...
...Some may argue that British literature is the logical foundation for study of any literature written in English, and that reading such a canon will inform the way concentrators approach other literature. While a thorough study of a particular country or region’s literature no doubt broadly prepares concentrators to study that of other countries, there is no reason that only the West’s English-language literature should be able to provide that larger context...
...English Department does its students a disservice by setting them up to measure a Gish Jen or Toni Morrison against the cultural standards of a Marlow or a Swift—while some Western European standards may inform their writing, the same literary tradition does not wholly apply to these authors, who descend from a canon remarkably distinct from that of old European or English works. Students will be even less equipped to approach works of authors such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, who writes in English, but whose national and cultural experiences are informed by situations far different from those...