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...system. From expanding our library’s connectivity in the Library Digital Initiative, to increasing storage via the Harvard Depository, to spearheading Harvard’s partnership with Google to digitize thousands of public-domain books, Verba has proven to be a genuine freethinker and pioneer. According to Interim President Derek C. Bok, Verba is preparing to retire, saying he wants to spend more time doing research. He will step down at the end of the academic year, after being first appointed in 1984 and leading a distinguished career as HUL director of length only matched by Thaddeus...
Though Fitzsimmons and Interim President Derek C. Bok said that postponing the admissions date would relieve pressure placed on high school seniors, Fitzsimmons and Scalise said that for athletes, the process works in reverse and likely letters similarly alleviate that pressure...
...There is nothing about early admission, in itself, that gives an advantage to those who apply early,” Etchemendy wrote, countering Interim President Derek C. Bok’s statement that early admission programs “tend to advantage the advantaged...
...speed up the process, pushing through Humanities 10, 12, and 16 as Literature and Arts A substitutes, even though the Core Standing Committee and its subcommittees were not in session. This move demonstrates that the administration can, in fact, do something about the Core right now, in the interim, as students remain stuck in a system that everyone knows is broken. We urge Deans Gross and Knowles to continue working around the unacceptably slow Core Committee, adding departmental courses to the Core as fast as possible for those students who won’t be able to reap the benefits...
First appointed to the post by then-President Derek C. Bok in 1984, Verba will step down at the end of the academic year, now-Interim President Bok announced yesterday. Under Verba, Harvard joined forces with search engine Google to make thousands of books available online for free. He is the longest-serving library chief since Thaddeus Harris, who led Harvard’s libraries from...