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...doing so by college rules. The reason is simple; in this country, college, like high school, is understood to be a phase in one’s education of a prescribed length, undertaken with peers who are similar in age and inexperience. Engineering programs, which can force an added semester??or more—on their students, take a bite out of this part of the college philosophy.By creating a quasi-independent School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard institutionalizes the distinctions between undergraduate engineers and their College peers, posing an added threat to Harvard?...
...Faculty has yet to agree on the next system of general education, which is the centerpiece of the current review and will likely replace the Core. But the review has already led to Faculty approval of a semester??s delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields—both actions that Kirby called part of an effort to bring students and professors together...
...Faculty has yet to agree on the next system of general education, which is the centerpiece of the current review and will likely replace the Core. But the review has already led to Faculty approval of a semester??s delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields—both actions that Kirby called part of an effort to bring students and professors together...
...acting in general,” says Martin, who performed in the Avignon Theater Festival that summer.Since then, Martin has been involved in about a dozen Harvard shows in only four semesters.His favorites include “Carousel,” his one foray into musical theater, and last semester??s “Lulu.” This semester Martin has roles in the Mainstage drama “The Playboy of the Western World” and in the Sunken Garden’s Children’s Theater production of “A Tale...
While the College and the UC struggle with the details of social programming, they would do well to consider some of the principles espoused in this semester??s popular Positive Psychology course. Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 speaks directly to the incapacitating perfectionism on campus with simple, but powerful ideas like “learn to fail or fail to learn.” Over 800 Harvard undergrads are actively learning how to give themselves the “permission to be human,” how to pursue excellence amidst...