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...students, Summers has been a celebrity of sorts—someone who mingles with them at study breaks, signs dollar bills bearing his signature, and teaches a freshman seminar on globalization...
...Moreover, Summers has worked to expand one of the most successful aspects of the College curriculum: the Freshman Seminar Program. The number of freshman seminars offered has more than quadrupled in his time here, notably in the sciences, where few seminars of any sort had previously been offered. That Summers’ commitment to undergraduate education extended beyond the committee room and into the classroom, where he taught two freshman seminars and a lecture course on globalization, stands as a testament to the authenticity of his conviction...
...about access to key materials. The lack of communication between the Adaptive Technology lab and AEO created a confusion amidst which no one realized, for over two months, that Harvard did not actually own a mimeograph. That hindered Sally’s performance not only in our seminar, but also in Expos and Japanese. Needless to say, she is not the only one who needs an expedient and efficient AEO on campus...
...spirit of my favorite Yard gate, last term I enrolled in one of the most reading-intensive courses in the Catalog: an intense seminar, the Foundation Texts of the West. Nevertheless, looking back on it, perhaps the best inspiration came not from the passionate professor, the Aeneid, or Krishna’s immortal lines in the Gita. It came from Sally...
Well into her second semester at Harvard, Sally still struggles with her new classes. Yet, whilst the great majority of our seminar students continue with the same class this term, she decided she could not do it anymore. For this not to repeat itself, it is only fair to demand the tools for someone to truly access education, and cross her own gates toward “growing in wisdom...