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...frugal conservatism as Harvard’s party planners across face tighter budget constraints this year.While administrators look to cope with an endowment savaged by losses, schools across the University are doing their part by whittling the allotment for holiday revelry down to less than half its former size??€”though some are more forthcoming than others about the extent of the cuts.At the Medical School, there will be no chocolate fountain gurgling in decadence. No waitstaff making the rounds with sliver platters of shrimp hors d’oeuvres and cheese cubes of international origin. No booze either.Instead...
...committee approved 10 classes last Thursday, bringing the total number of courses counting for credit in the new program up to 66. But one of those classes might not be listed as a Gen Ed class if the professor cannot find enough teaching fellows to accommodate a large class size??€”an issue that has become a defining feature of Gen Ed courses thus...
...after his eighteenth birthday, Billy got his tongue pierced. Over the years, he’s stretched out the hole to its present size??€”capable of accommodating a fork. To demonstrate how he did this, he deftly pushes his tongue about in his mouth and pops out two thick metal stems. He then easily slips his index finger through the fleshy chasm. He wiggles...
...little in terms of carbon dioxide, the country has taken strong measures to protect the environment in the face of a paucity of resources and money. This year, Tong’s administration created the world’s largest marine reserve—400,000 square miles in size??€”that oceanography professor James J. McCarthy, an expert on climate change, called a “remarkable gift to the world...
...expansion of the provost office’s role during his tenure. Under interim President Bok, Hyman began to share some of Bok’s presidential responsibilities, including chairing many ad hoc tenure committees and fundraising duties. Since 2001, the Office of the Provost has doubled in size??€”not for the sake of increased bureaucracy, but because the roles and abilities of the office increased so significantly under Hyman’s leadership. And although Hyman was appointed by former-President Lawrence H. Summers, he has maintained a good rapport with faculty members and is respected across...