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...TORONTO The Serial Diners Club has but one laudable goal: working through the restaurant listings in the local Yellow Pages (except for venues "playing music at volume level 11"). The club, which offers free membership, meets weekly and has so far eaten its way through to the letter...
...doubts won’t subside. A few weeks before Kirby encouraged them to work, the same first-year students received a letter from then Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 titled: “Slow Down: Getting More out of Harvard by Doing Less.” Part of me wishes I had slowed down, relaxed, or taken other paths. In high school, I had dreams of playing Division I basketball. Height and talent might have been limiting factors, but so was the devotion to other pursuits—academic and extracurricular?...
...Student Disability Resources (SDR) web site does its part to make it clear that Harvard is not “that type of university.” The site includes a letter to prospective disabled students from SDR director Louise H. Russell. The letter begins, “When you think about how thoroughly university admissions offices scrutinize applicants, it’s unrealabout what makes a good ‘fit’ for you: just because you’re smart enough to be admitted to a particular college doesn’t necessarily mean it?...
Russell, who has written extensively on the “transition to college,” says that the letter is designed to help incoming disabled college students “do their homework” before selecting a college. She says that different colleges provide different services, and students who are accustomed to one way of doing things should not be forced into another way of doing them at college...
...Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, in a letter addressed to his colleagues announcing the release of the report, seems to agree with this fundamental point. Kirby quotes James O. Freedman, who wrote that “Liberal education teaches the importance of tempering profound convictions with a measure of tolerance and a judicious sense of humility.” “If this is true,” Kirby continues in the letter, “then students and faculty must truly engage one another, close up, and not at a distance.” If Kirby...