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...exciting development, especially at a time when stem cell research promises to revolutionize medicine and dramatically improve the quality of human life. The prospect of this new concentration, however, also raises important questions about the College’s guiding pedagogical principles that the Faculty would be remiss to ignore. As the Faculty decides whether to approve HDRB as a field of concentration—as, to be sure, we hope it will do—it should remain mindful of the purpose of a concentration within the larger context of a liberal arts education...
...Finally, as a central banker, I would be remiss if I failed to mention the contribution of monetary policy to the improved productivity performance. By damping business cycles and by keeping inflation under control, a sound monetary policy improves the ability of households and firms to plan and increases their willingness to undertake the investments in skills, research, and physical capital needed to support continuing gains in productivity...
...backline finally gave way, as the Crimson suffered its first loss of the season to the Lions. Another late collapse in Harvard’s second fixture allowed the Gauchos to tie it up, 1-1. Although the Crimson’s faults became increasingly apparent, it would be remiss to assume the squad was resting on underserved laurels. Harvard carried out successive annihilations of Fairfield and Cornell, outscoring the two 9-1, and seemed more than ready to face a surging No. 14 Brown.Scoring seven of the nine goals after halftime in its two-game romp, the Crimson quickly...
...through, the fellowship or job that you weren’t offered. Here, we have learned to experience failure, because it is impossible to succeed at everything at once. Whether those failures were in the classroom, in tryouts, or even in a fight with a friend, we would be remiss if we said that we had made it through the Harvard experience without learning that we cannot always succeed...
...admitted, then-Director of Financial Aid John U. Monro ’34 urged that “Harvard ought to liberalize the transfer operation greatly.” Transfer students, then and now, are a significant demographic of highly motivated students and leaders that the College would be remiss to exclude. Space constraints have always been one of the most limiting factors in admissions, for both freshmen and transfer applicants, and we realize that the current issues are of pressing concern. However, if a mere 40 transfer applicants were accepted and spread out across all 12 houses, the additional...