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...other schools, which is the situation that the women’s equestrian club faces with many of its opponents, including three in the Ivy League. Club teams at Harvard are at a massive disadvantage when competing nationally against these varsity teams by having to make do with scant resources; some teams have even had to forfeit their spots in national competitions because of financial constraints...
...least a facelift, the staff of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) IT department has also shown reticence toward the prospect of cutting-edge “Web 2.0” opportunities for information gathering, instead touting my.harvard’s existing customization capabilities, which are scant. Indeed, FAS IT seems to be headed in the other direction, if the shift of course websites to my.harvard this year is any indication. One potential solution is a student-made portal—an effort to create one is being spearheaded by former UC presidential candidate Thomas D. Hadfield...
...that the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, whose report, released in late January, highlighted the sobering state of the College’s "culture of teaching," would do well to note. By assigning the blame for Harvard’s pedagogical deficiencies wholly to the Faculty with scant mention of undergraduates and their own dismal culture of learning, the Task Force has failed to seize an opportunity of great magnitude...
Harvard assumes, not always without reason, that its American undergraduates possess scant knowledge of European and Ancient History. To fill this void, the college offers courses such as History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From Antiquity to 1650” and History 10b, which does the same job from 1648 up to the present...
...one—members of the club must pay forty dollars per bi-weekly practice at Castleneck Farms in Essex. Unsurprisingly, what with the intellectual, economic, and equestrian prereqs, the club has remained small, with just five men and four women on each respective team. But even with such scant numbers, the team is optimistic. Most members headed to Texas over intersession for an intensive four-day training session with Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones, who is renowned in the (admittedly small) American polo scene, and is also Crocker Snow’s fianc?...