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...Tosteson’s deanship. “I will personally miss him, and Harvard will certainly miss him.”Faculty and staff who worked with Tosteson praised him as a “visionary”—many of the changes he pushed for remain hallmarks of medical education over 20 years later.Tosteson is credited with modernizing teaching at Harvard and at universities around the world. Through the “New Pathway” program launched in 1985, he advocated for a significant reduction in classroom hours—students once attended lecture until...
...crux is that Harvard was here before all of us and is likely to remain, when all that is remembered of any of us is the footnote written by a history concentrator who is trying to win a Hoopes Prize by digging up obscure minutiae. While we pass through and change, the college does not. The dorms will be filled with other students having their own love triangles. The UC will continue to amend its constitution. The faculty will reach a new revolutionary way to teach general education that looks like all the past programs. The senior thesis writers will...
...have 900 actual friends.” But this provides an overly restrictive framework in which to consider the new ways in which we interact online. We can distinguish between the “core” elements of friendship—connection, laughter, and empathy—that remain independent of the medium through which they are forged. There are many friendships that would thrive even if Pony Express were the only method of communication after Harvard. An online social network’s real impact is not strengthening the core relationships around you, but bolstering connections within your...
...role will likely grow as a tenured professor—he was also recently appointed Director of Graduate Studies for HAA. But, Kelsey said, the extra work will not detract from his time in the classroom. “My teaching philosophy and the nature of my courses will remain the same,” he said. —Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwart@fas.harvard.edu...
...necessity for faith—not in any Christian deity or even the almighty Mammon, but in the boundlessly optimistic idea that everything will make sense in the end. There’s enough gritty frontier fiber left in the national spirit for us to remain positive that everything will ultimately be okay. Recent events have done much to shake up that can-do conviction—but for now, precariously, it still holds...