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...Despite being arguably less athletically gifted than the 2006 squad, new defensive schemes, a revised training regimen, and improved team discipline have lifted the rugby club to upset victories over Buffalo and Boston College. “Last year we had a gifted team,” coach Robert J. Karetsky said. “As coaches we didn’t understand some parts of coaching defense. As coaches we needed to learn.” But this year Harvard is frequently lauded as one of the most gifted defensive squads in the country, according to Bressette. Even...
...other area institutions to improve the city’s public schools. “We’re the ones in a better position to ask university and corporate partners to consider a partnership in our school systems,” he said. But City Manager Robert W. Healy warned the council against holding local universities responsible for too many of Cambridge’s needs. “They are easy to bash,” he said. “They don’t pay taxes; they impact the neighborhoods; everybody hates them...
What Spellberg calls the “benevolent interest” comes from people like Thomas Forrest Kelly, the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and longtime HEMS faculty advisor, former HEMS music director and violinist Robert Mealy ’85-’87, and renowned harpsichordist and organist Frances Fitch, who currently serves as the Chair of Early Music at the Longy School of Music...
...qualities the next president should and shouldn’t have.“I found them very responsive, thinking along the lines that I want them to think,” Kleinman said of the three committee members—Corporation fellows Nannerl O. Keohane and Robert D. Reischauer ’63 and Overeers President Susan L. Graham ’64. “I was made confident while listening that they were heading in the right direction.” History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 said that Keohane also invited...
...world is incompatible with statistical ignorance. A Harvard education must train people to separate compelling evidence from froth. Statisticians do have a comparative advantage in this, but I can readily imagine great core courses taught by Florence Professor of Government Gary King or Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson teaching students empirical methods with a focus on politics or sociology. The analytical reasoning component of the proposed system includes such courses but comes up short of mandating them. While other methods of analytical reasoning like logic are important, a statistics-oriented course should be required...