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...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced his decision to expand the faculty by 10 percent, from 635 professors to 700, by 2010. His successor, William C. Kirby, accelerated the plan in 2002, promising to increase the faculty to 750 by 2010. There are already over 700 professors...
...report that was released yesterday, the committee—made up of Harvard Corporation members Robert D. Reischauer ’63 and James R. Houghton ’58—detailed the rationale behind its proxy votes...
...worry that undergraduates tend too seldom to consider Harvard’s endowment an extension of our community, our values, and our capacity for growth,” said Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, the lone undergraduate on the ACSR...
...early admissions, Harvard is inviting around 60 more students to join the incoming class than it did last year, the school announced today. The preliminary early admissions rate of 21.5 percent is almost identical to that of the previous two years. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that it was too early to know socioeconomic details about the Class of 2011. He said, however, that next year’s incoming freshmen will be even more diverse in terms of ethnic groups and possible areas of concentration. There are many more prospective...
...This fact, however, has not dampened the spirits of the students who climb the stairs to the bell tower every Sunday to create the jovial—if mildly clamorous—bell-ringing festivities.The Lowell House bells were purchased from the Soviet Union by Charles R. Crane, who presented them as a gift to Harvard in 1930. Since the fall of the USSR and the end of forced secularism in Russia, the monks of the Danilov Monastery—whence the bells originate—have been asking for their return. It seems this summer they may get them...