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Some donors prefer to contribute sizable gifts when they can form a relationship with an institution??s permanent chief...
That may be fine for the world at large, but we at Harvard, quite frankly, are supposed to be something different. Every student here knows what it feels like to drop the H-bomb and is familiar with that tinge of pride at the recognition and respect which our institution??s name inspires. That distinction, however, becomes a point of shame when we fail to deserve the elitism which we so naturally affect and when we instead spout vulgarities from a pedestal. Harvard’s most recent and feted cultural contribution is chick lit written...
...fellow and study group leader, Colonel Charles Hooper. “The purpose of both the seminar and the visit was to familiarize undergraduates with the education, culture, role, and missions of the American military,” he said. Along with the seminars, the students visited the institution??s war-game facilities and historical sites and dined at the officers’ club overlooking Narragansett Bay. “It really shows you what military leaders need to take into account in planning and executing operations,” said Vivek Viswanathan ’09, another...
...especially concerned about what they call Harvard’s lack of attention to gender equality when it comes to child-bearing.STICKER PRICEWhile schools including Princeton and Yale subsidize half of the tuition costs for their faculty members’ children—at these schools or another undergraduate institution??Harvard offers no tuition discounts to professors’ progeny.According to Lisa Martin, chair of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Women, Harvard’s “tuition assistance” consists of interest free loans to help with education at any institution.Princeton...
Complicated social benefit calculations, a desire to improve financial aid, or just plain old gratitude to this institution??the beauty of the Senior Gift campaign is the range of creative and genuine justifications that guide the individual decisions of seniors to give or not to give. Rolled out every year in early April, the Senior Gift campaign asks every senior to donate a nominal amount of money back to Harvard. Around the same time, dining halls and common rooms across campus fill with heated and sometimes bitter exchanges over the merits of giving.After three years of reading...