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...professor interaction of Amherst, or a Yardfest to rival Penn’s Spring Fling, few of our peer institutions can hold a candle to the vibrancy of co-curricular life at Harvard. Rather then rest on its laurels, Harvard would do well to find ways to make the leap from good to great in this realm.It’s easy to look at the co-curricular experience at Harvard and to believe that student groups are better off left to their own devices. The Institute of Politics, the Crimson, Harvard Student Agencies, the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...entry scores, so homeschooling isn't necessarily an impediment to tertiary study. Indeed, a high proportion of the homeschooled just keep on studying, often well into their 20s. Why? Perhaps their childhood experience fires a profound love of learning. Or does their sheltered upbringing cause them to delay the leap into a scary world? The most persistent objection to home education is that it denies its charges the socializing experience of school. "Living in the community, being with other children . . . these are vital parts of a normal life for a child," says Sharryn Brownlee, immediate past president of the N.S.W...
Last week Harvard announced another leap forward for financial aid: now families earning less than $60,000 a year need not make any contribution, a 50 percent increase in that critical number. Raising this baseline, however, was the expected next step after other schools topped Harvard’s figure...
...hope, will have ripple effects throughout higher education by compelling other schools to increase their aid packages as well in order to compete for low-income students. The announcement that general need-based scholarship funding will increase by 6.2 percent this fall is also welcome news. The leap is a bigger one than that of previous years—in 2005, scholarship funding rose 5.8 percent—and will help soften the blow of higher tuition. We are heartened by the words of Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who said last spring that...
...several of its constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience and consider hiring him. "It sounds like the Great Leap Forward"?Mao's disastrous campaign to boost economic productivity in the 1950s?Yu said, as he sped toward Changgou in a van full of landscape designers. "But maybe I can stop them...