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...College will decide this summer on what scale to renovate existing Houses after a test renovation plan in Dunster House, according to Gross...
...science issues at Harvard are certainly on a different scale than those at Radcliffe. The amount of money, number of personnel, and potential connections among medical and engineering research and business are far more substantial issues at the broader level of the University. Moreover, given the rapid pace with which science changes and advances, science planning is tremendously challenging. Science advances don’t occur by fiat, but rather often arise organically and sometimes unpredictably. A further challenge is the balance that must be achieved between research projects that will attract extensive outside funding and those that focus exclusively...
...scale and pace of this transformation is neatly illustrated by the marvelous “Goodbye Lenin” story of Jan Grzebski, who woke up from a 19-year coma four days ago. When the former Polish railway worker suffered his horrific accident in 1988, millions of people languished behind the Iron Curtain, Americans practiced nuclear shelter drills, and students had to navigate the Dewey decimal system—a life unimaginable today. In Jan’s words, “When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat...
...other hand, the University argues that legacy preference confers only a slight advantage on alumni children. Harvard’s admissions director, Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, describes legacy preference as “a feather on the scale if all else is equal.” By this logic, the vast majority of legacies would have been admitted on their own achievements regardless of the policy. But if that’s true, the vast majority of alumni parents would have donated regardless of whether such a policy were in place. If legacy...
...believe that most legacies here are, if anything, overqualified. Perhaps gullibly, I believe McGrath Lewis when she says that legacy preference is a mere “feather on the scale.” But it’s a feather that looms large in the public imagination. Even The Economist—not known for populist pandering—has charged that under legacy preference policies, “the students in America’s places of higher education are increasingly becoming an oligarchy.” The magazine continues: “This is sad in itself...