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...desired. From the barren wasteland of Cabot House to the “quaint” walkthrough triples of Dunster, many students currently preparing for their housing lotteries are faced with less than ideal options. In recent years, Harvard has done little to combat this problem, even as our peer institutions have embarked on ambitious housing projects such as Princeton’s construction of the $100 million Whitman College and Yale’s extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges. But hope is on the way. Last week, University Hall announced that Harvard would embark...
...engineering within the context of a liberal arts education. “I think in many ways when people think about engineering, they don’t always think about doing it in the Ivy League context,” she said. But, she said, Harvard, Yale and their peer schools are “ideal places to study engineering because you get to study in the context of a much broader liberal arts education.” The new school marks the second time Yale has attempted to establish a separate engineering school. In 1932, Yale created a School...
Friendly competition has not been limited to inter-house rivalry, however, as similar campus-wide sustainability efforts and pledges have been implemented at peer institutions in the Ivy League...
...UniThrive, created by Joshua Kushner ’08, is a non-profit organization that utilizes peer-to-peer lending to bridge the gap between undergraduates of Harvard and its alumni by helping students to pay their tuition. [SEE CLARIFICATION...
CLARIFICATION: The April 10 news story, "Student Entrepreneurs Get Lift, Prize Money" did not include the names of both of the creators of UniThrive. The non-profit peer-to-peer lending organization was created by Nimay K. Mehta ’09 and Joshua Kushner...