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Such a disappointing result is the rather unsurprising product of a one-year process conducted behind closed doors and largely driven by the narrow-minded agenda of a University President who, to judge by his repetitive gene-chromosome rhetoric, seems intent on turning Harvard into his alma mater, MIT. (Oddly enough, the sciences may well lose the most under the proposed revisions: a delayed concentration decision, “mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last...
...give to the poor,” Slavitt says. “He is not in favor of PILOT [Payment In Lieu Of Taxes] and he wants Harvard to take in vastly more money than it does and he wants to give it to his constituency. Without Harvard or MIT, Cambridge basically is Everett or Somerville. It’s a great national ornament and it should be protected...
Last year, both Princeton and Harvard awarded about 47 percent A grades. And a study conducted by Malkiel found that 11 top schools—Stanford University, MIT, the University of Chicago and the Ivy League universities—have given 44 to 55 percent A-range grades in recent years...
...Black and White will have a chance to regroup next weekend, as the crew tussles for bragging rights on the Charles with No. 15 Boston University and MIT...
...financial ambiguity in the launch of the Stem Cell Institute stood in contrast to Harvard’s announcement last June of the Broad Institute, which administrators quickly publicized as a $200-million joint venture with MIT to study the human genome. But the Broad Institute was founded on an original donation of $100 million, far more than the Stem Cell Institute’s $5-million founding donation...