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Kirby also said he was proud of the Faculty’s rapid growth under his watch—from 636 in 2002 to at least 700 this semester??as well as the expansion of the Faculty’s physical facilities. That expansion entailed enormous expenditures and produced a budget deficit in the tens of millions of dollars for the Faculty...
...inboxes overflowing with students’ well-crafted and earnest inquiries, lecture halls bursting with enthusiastic young men and women, a palpable spirit of excitement and possibility in the air—shopping period abounds in strange phenomena. But before its peculiar energy vanishes into the humdrum of the semester??s subsequent weeks, let us consider some improvements that could enhance students’ shopping experience and render the week an even more productive introduction to the semester. Shopping period has long been a time of introductions, as students become acquainted with new courses, professors, and ideas. This...
...there is one thing I have learned over the course of last semester??s famously popular “Justice” course, it is that although life may be unfair, human society can correct for these inequalities. In this respect, Harvard is morally obliged. There are thousands of people in the world—even on this hallowed campus, America’s so-called bastion of justice and equality—who are richer, smarter, and more talented than I am. And yet, despite this abomination, our society, steeped in the rhetoric of equal opportunity, does...
...student appears to be in any serious academic difficulty. While students understand that time is needed to process and confirm the grades, many expressed frustration at not being able to receive their marks before the beginning of the second semester. Some students said knowing the previous semester??s results would help them better plan the semester ahead. “It’d be nice if we knew earlier, then we would choose courses better,” said Spenta P. Kutar ’09, who said she would have liked to know her grades...
Many fellows also choose to audit classes alongside Harvard students. Six of the past semester??s seven fellows took Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights,” Burns said...