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After a rash of pilfering scandals, including the theft of $127,000 from Eliot House’s annual Evening with Champions (EWC) benefit in 1993, the College responded by requiring a two-hour long seminar on financial management for student group leaders—however, administrators resisted any drastic changes...
...students who have really shown a commitment to the finance industry, and who have tried to make up for Harvard’s weaknesses. There are a few classes offered at Harvard that always look strong on a resume—there is a Mergers and Acquisitions seminar in the economics department and another economics class called Corporate Finance. And there is another one—I think it’s called Capital Markets...
...students and provide greater flexibility in selecting courses; the onerous Core requirements currently comprise a quarter of the classes students are required to take in their undergraduate careers. Proponents of the measure say that reducing the Core by one course would encourage more first-years to take a freshman seminar, an important and worthwhile goal that would allow more first-years to directly interact with a professor in an small-class environment. The Faculty has vastly expanded the program in the past year, though many deserving students are still turned away each semester...
Easing the requirements would make first-years feel freer to take a freshman seminar, said Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, who proposed the measure. The Faculty has drastically increased seminar offerings in the past year, and eliminating a Core requirement would encourage more students to take advantage of the program, she said...
Although an earlier proposal on reducing Core requirements explored counting freshman seminars for actual Core credit, that plan had been struck down by Faculty members who said it would limit the variety of seminar offerings by making seminar leaders feel they had to fit their courses into the Core’s pre-defined subject areas...