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There were times this past season when the injury-riddled Harvard men’s volleyball team was worried it would not have enough healthy players to field a six-person lineup...
...would be wiser to listen to President Abraham Lincoln, who said: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present…As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country...
...what changed? Over the past 18 months, we have made prudent, structural adjustments to position FAS for a future of long-term, sustainable excellence. From enhancing academic planning to reconfiguring the functions that support our students and faculty, FAS has become a place driven by its academic priorities...
Although the past year has been defined by a renewed sense of institutional discipline, this discipline did not diminish our vibrancy or preclude new efforts to advance our mission. Next year will begin with a faculty projected to be slightly larger in size than in the past. The incoming graduate-student class will also be slightly larger than the last, and it boasts the highest admissions yield in recent history. Similarly, the yield in the College will exceed last year’s mark of 76 percent. The College and FAS continue to attract the world’s most...
While we did give up some things over the past 18 months, Harvard remains an environment of unique depth and breadth. For instance, in FAS we offer instruction in more than 70 ancient and modern languages, far more than any other American university. No language programs were eliminated because of the financial crisis. In fact, we moved forward; this year we launched new “bridge” courses that integrate language instruction (such as Arabic and Chinese) into literature and other content instruction...