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...wrong to keep focusing on the ratio," Clark says. "The real strength of Harvard is that it is an academic metropolis with many magnificent neighborhoods...
Nevertheless, the student-faculty ratio at Harvard is several times higher than at other top-ranked schools such as Yale, Stanford, New York University, Cornell, University of Chicago and University of Virginia, according to the 1999 U.S. News and World Report law school rankings...
Harvard's 20-1 student-faculty ratio is the highest of the top 25 law schools in the nation, according to the magazine...
...Party (red clothing was not required, merely encouraged--the Seneca avoided all kind of exclusion), held at the Aria club, was quite simply the best Harvard party I have ever attended. The $10 ticket led to a flowing open bar and an equal number of guys and girls (a ratio I never thought I'd see again). But more than flowing beer, the party demonstrated one of the reasons Harvard is such a great place--its diversity. The Red Party exemplified the term "melting...
However, as Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has rightly pointed out, student-Faculty ratio is not everything. After it received a sub-par rating on the advising survey in 1997, the Department of English and American Literature and Language made a few common-sense reforms: It assigned every student a permanent Faculty adviser and put a member of the senior Faculty in charge of undergraduate studies. A marked increase in students' satisfaction with the department was the natural result. Economics, whose score on the survey fell from 1997 to 1999 and whose rank among concentrations...