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...await their immediate implementation.The proposals of the Education Policy Committee and the Committee on a January Term, on the other hand, we view with some skepticism. Instead of rewarding students for the breadth of their interests, the creation of secondary fields is more likely to compel students down the path of credentialism. The second key reform of the Education Policy Committee was to delay concentration choice until the end of the first semester of sophomore year. But this would be inherently disadvantageous to concentrations in the sciences, especially engineering—and would not have served their ostensible purpose?...
Alison Dundes Renteln ’81, then-president of RUS, called for swifter changes, including a lit path to the Quad. Renteln told The Crimson that she was “afraid we may be getting into a bureaucratic snarl...
...trained to stop a suspicious Iraqi at a safe distance of about 400 meters with a shout or a gesture. If that does not work, they should make a show of force with a rifle. If that fails, they should fire a warning shot across the suspect's path. Then they should shoot to kill, if all else fails. That works when there is time for such a deliberate response. But sometimes emotions take over. An Army officer in Iraq put it this way: "We have been here for nearly six months, no days off, 24 hours...
...were carried through University electrical wiring. Thus, only students with audio devices powered by Harvard’s electricity could receive WHRB’s programming. Throughout the 1955-56 school year, WHRBies fought to get their station onto the FM airwaves to service a larger audience. Though the path had been partly paved by Princeton’s radio station, which had already switched to FM, Harvard Radio faced an uphill battle to get off the wires and on the air.In February 1956, WHRB President Geoffrey M. Kalmus ’56 announced that the station might begin...
...only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known as the creator of game theory. “It was pretty intense.”In fact, Whitman initially wanted to strike a path away from her father’s. “She said that she wanted to go into a field where her father was not particularly a specialist,” says Morton White, who taught Whitman in Humanities 5 and is an emeritus professor of philosophy and intellectual history...