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...complaints at Harvard is that students do not have enough opportunity to interact with faculty members. Recently, several of my friends and I decided to invite a number of professors to dinner in Dunster House. Many “big-name” professors, like Lewis, Mansfield, Pinker, Damrosch, Mankiw, Dominguez, and Kirshner, agreed to join us for dinner. This demonstrates that a lot of the blame for the problem falls on the students. Nevertheless, I believe Houses would do well to institute more faculty dinners. They do not need to be fancy like the ones we already have...
...year after taking over the helm of Ec 10, N. Gregory Mankiw is responding to student demand by supplying change to the decades-old introductory economics course. Most significantly, students will now be able to divide Social Analysis 10 with credit—meaning that signing up for the course doesn’t lock a student in for both semesters of the year-long course. And undergraduates with a social analysis Core requirement to fulfill will only need to take the first semester to do so, without having to file a petition first. “There have always...
...Mankiw said that since Ec 10 was a “fantastically successful institution” under Feldstein, he operates with a general principle of “if Marty did it, keep doing...
...Mankiw said that despite the exclusive nature of the party, he found nothing inherently wrong with the tradition...
...Grades create natural divisions among students,” Mankiw said. “Rewarding people who have done exceptional work is not objectionable in and of itself...