Word: rigorousity
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As a member of the administrative staff with professional and personal commitments outside of Harvard, I have mixed emotions to Judd B. Kessler’s recent column (“The 168-Hour Week,” April 8). My knee-jerk reaction to the statistic that students spend...
Office decoration philosophy: I conclude that this person, female, has exquisite taste and a rigorous and logical sense of order. Her first rule is clarity; second, no clutter; third, despite rules one and two, the order established must not be bloodless or inhumane; fourth, you must make do with Harvard...
It is not yet clear what effect these changes will have on undergraduate life at Harvard. Certainly, with the removal of Lewis, the College has lost an advocate for extracurricular activity on campus and a proponent of social relaxation time for students. In his letter to incoming first-years this...
Improving academics at Harvard is a valuable goal. But if making it more rigorous implies more student hours devoted to course work, Summers, Kirby and Gross must consider the cost—even with Lewis out of the picture.
That last factor is “probably the most important but most difficult to be rigorous about,” Summers said.