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...We’re quirky and socially conscious and innovators. We tend to add our own flavors to things,” said Hortzworth. The drive to plan good reunions, even if it means deviating from the standard Harvard reunion program, stems from the desire to include as many alumni as possible and to cater to their needs...
...ACSR recommended that the Corporation use the Sullivan Principles, which provided humane guidelines for the operation of companies in South Africa, as a minimum standard for the endowment’s investment practices. At the same time, in 1983, 37 of the 39 companies in which the University owned stock had signed the Principles, but some divestiture proponents argued that not all of the signatory companies had actually lived up to the document’s stipulations...
...suggested that in deciding a case, and when voting, a Board member must be “sufficiently persuaded” that a student has violated a rule of the faculty. This is intended to increase transparency and make clear that cases are decided based on a previously agreed standard. At the same time, to help document a case, and to help assure fairness, students involved in disciplinary cases will be asked to submit to the Board a list of relevant information...
...program in which students would work in small groups and analyze medical situations to develop problem-solving skills that would remain applicable in the face of accelerating scientific progress. Harvard was the first major medical school in the United States to implement these curricular changes, which set the standard for medical education both at home and abroad.While instituting radical reforms, Tosteson maintained a strong rapport with the Medical School faculty—not all of whom initially embraced his vision for the Medical School’s future.“He was a man of great courage to institute...
...obvious talent, her academic workload belied the possibility of a future in music. Brown said that her parents hoped she would become a doctor, and she stuck to her pre-med requirements for two years. Brown took only one introductory music course but never learned to read standard notation music, and eventually concentrated in History and Literature.Brown eventually wrote her senior thesis on the history of American bluegrass. Robert W. Jones ’84, who knew her as an undergraduate, said as part of her senior thesis research, Brown traveled to Washington D.C. to interview one of the founding...