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...will go into effect in the 2009-2010 academic year, was approved yesterday by Harvard’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, following Bok’s recommendation. It will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year...
...Both the UC and a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53 proposed a calendar that would move fall exams before break and end the academic year in May. But while the Verba report endorsed a January “J-term,” the UC report argued instead for a shorter period between semesters and an earlier end date...
...Sidney Verba ’53, who is stepping down this month as the director of the University Library, says that he was “involved in that issue about 25 years ago,” but does not remember the specifics of the proposals made...
Harvard possesses one of the greatest university library systems in the academic world, and much of the credit for its continuing success can be attributed to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, the outgoing director of Harvard University Libraries (HUL). Under Verba, HUL has become a much more efficient, user-friendly organization, with the launch of programs like HOLLIS, HUL’s invaluable online search tool. Verba has kept Harvard at the cutting edge of library technology, most notably in recent years through collaboration with Google to digitize Harvard’s collections...
...months later, the committee, chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a "4-1-4" schedule—two four-month semesters and a January term in the middle. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackled a curricular review...