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...took exactly eight years between when letter grades were [first] used at Harvard and the first time the Faculty bemoaned that the standards had slipped,” Lewis says. “Every decade between the 1890s and the current decade, I have found reports of the Faculty or the president in which one or the other has said, either that it is a terrible thing that grades were rising or that it was wonderful thing that grades were rising because it proved that the students were getting smarter...
...Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s annual letter in February, he wrote that as FAS concentrates on investing in financial aid, curricular changes, salaries, and expanding its ranks, it will also try to rein in spending with careful monitoring of general expenses, maintaining its years-long “soft freeze” on staff hiring and conserving energy...
...original Class of 1969 letter and subsequent follow-up spawned a flurry of media attention, including articles in national newspapers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
When seven members of the Class of 1969 sent a letter in December 2003 attacking the compensation of managers—at the end of a year in which two Harvard bond traders earned over $34 million—they set off a public relations war about Harvard’s endowment management that played out in the country’s biggest newspapers...
...January letter to alumni, Rothenberg, the steering committee’s chair, called the transition a time to “reflect on aspects of the distinctive investment model” that HMC has put to work for Harvard...