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Save for scattered extracurricular activities, there is traditionally little interaction between freshmen and upperclassmen. If the College is serious about breaking this barrier—as the Harvard College Curricular Review proposals for increased peer advising and hopefully abortive noises about formally affiliating freshmen with residential houses suggests—it would be wise to encourage upperclassmen-freshmen interaction from the moment freshmen set foot in the Yard. However, it shouldn’t end when freshman week does. The Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) should consider expanding the Prefect Program to several prefects per entryway, which...
...also clear that Harvard’s move to make college more affordable has had an impact on its peer institutions. Last month, Yale followed Harvard’s lead, mimicking the HFAI and unveiling its own financial aid program designed to help low-income students attend Yale. Hopefully, other schools will follow with similar programs...
...Crimson readers weren’t afraid for Harvard’s reputation when they read that their peers were to be sued (dozens of our peer institutions have suffered similar fates). They were afraid for their own security: they wanted to know if this meant they themselves could be caught and tried...
Irving called Lipstadt an “upstart young professor,” and criticized the scholars who signed the petition for engaging in censorship and submitting to departmental peer pressure...
Faculty availability at Harvard averaged a 2.92 rating compared to an average of 3.39 at peer institutions, quality of instruction received a 3.16 rating compared to 3.31 at other schools, and quality of advising within majors netted a 2.54 compared to a 2.86 at other COFHE schools, the Globe reported...