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...Force cadet Brian R. Smith ’02, who proposed the legislation, said it would allow cadets to avoid time-consuming commutes to MIT, which already offers courses that count toward ROTC requirements. Harvard currently offers no courses that have been sanctioned by military officials...
However, these attempts appear somewhat inert and infrequent when viewed within a larger context. Harvard’s investment in public art is insufficient compared to the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT has a full-time public art curator, who has administered the Percent-for-Art Policy since 1968. The program, modeled on federal policy adopted during the Kennedy administration, allocates one percent of the cost of each new building to the provision of public art. The program has resulted in a rich and diverse group of works and has noticeably infused the MIT landscape with...
...MIT currently has six qualifying building projects, capped at $250,000 each, and two other $80,000 public art endeavors. “It’s been extremely successful and every university should consider implementing such a program,” Kathleen Goncharov, MIT’s public art curator, wrote in an e-mail...
This is not to say the Blue Room is without its charms. Packed to its exposed wood rafters on a rainy Sunday night, the restaurant attracts a hearty dinner crowd of families, MIT types and the aforementioned business travelers. White tablecloths have been cast aside in favor of exposed metal tabletops, leaving a casual sort of place where you can ask to have a bite of your neighbor’s entrée (or at least that’s what the guy sitting next to me found appropriate). Finding high-quality food in such a low-pretense atmosphere...
...Academics, extracurricular activities, and a social life. At Harvard, you can only pick two.” As an intrepid, self-confident first year, I pooh-poohed his antiquated adage—surely there were some people who found a way to have it all. This is Harvard, not MIT...