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...most compelling argument made in favor of growing the College is the possibility of adding more international students to give undergraduates more diverse perspectives on culture and scholarship. This is a laudable goal, but there must be a fine balance at Harvard between learning from your professors and learning from your peers. Striking that balance should take precedent over further “improving” the student body through internationalization...
...continued with his ground-breaking scholarship on international relations even while serving as dean, said that Ellwood will face a “trade-off” between administrative responsibilities and his academic work...
...Women comprise half of the undergraduate student body but this demographic group—cutting across lines of ethnicity, class, and religion—lacks visual representation of its contribution to Harvard. Consequently, institutional memory loses a long and rich tradition of female scholarship here, a tradition to which current students are never exposed. In contrast, students are reminded on a daily basis of the celebrated history of Harvard men—portraits, statues, names of buildings and other iconography laud nearly four centuries of male success at Harvard. Yet, at the same time, the Radcliffe name is becoming...
...spite of gymnasiums and compulsory athletics, physical examinations and infirmaries, certain ills continued. Each term some students would "break down" for no apparent reason. The Dean's office would be overcrowded with men whose delinquencies were the despair of their professors. Too many students, hand-picked for scholarship, failed through some hidden cause no physical examination could uncover. Once in a tragic while a student crime brought publicity of an unwelcome kind and awakened in the public mind a distrust of all colleges...
Rachael A. Wagner ’04 also won induction last year as a junior, and she has since received a Rhodes scholarship. She said she did not think membership in the society brought her the scholarship, but that the two honors “coincided...