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...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, but they need to be institutionalized, regular, and casual to be more effective.8. Calendar. It’s time that we aligned our calendar with that...
...encounter at a cocktail party he attended as a pre-frosh. “I met one terrible Harvard person,” Burkle said, “and I was like ‘I swear I will never be that man.’” Nevertheless, Burkle fears that in some ways he has not been able to escape the stereotypical Harvard air. “My speech is basically about how we’re cripplingly smart, and so I feel like no one else is going to understand the speech outside our class...
...degrees, but this is the first time the team has come close to it, let alone actually pulling it out,” he says. “In terms of the place in history, that’s much more powerful than my individual stuff.”Nevertheless, Ungar’s run to the gold medal in 2006 showed his growth as a fencer. Though the All-American has been fencing nationally since the age of 10, this past season was the first time he established himself as one of the preeminent collegiate fencers in the nation.Ungar...
Google last year launched “Google Print,” an initiative to digitize and make available online the vast holdings of the libraries of several major public and university libraries, including Harvard. Nevertheless, some publishers protested Google’s decision to digitize print works on the grounds of copyright infringement. Google, for its part, allowed publishers to instruct it which books not to scan at all. While we understand the concerns of the publishers, copyright laws are not meant as a means to keep information protected, but rather as a way to disseminate it justly, keeping...
...simply, Lamont has two typing rooms but no place to leave typewriters. For the trustful, of course, this is no problem—the typist just leaves his machine when he goes to class or meals. One dislikes casting doubts upon human nature, but a glance at the statistics nevertheless indicates a number of losses every month in books and personal items. Typewriters are particularly vulnerable, since there is no way of checking them at the doors. For the man a bit uneasy about losing his machine, it means lugging it along every time he leaves the library. This...