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...better solution is to have fall exams before Thanksgiving. Designing its calendar, Harvard must defer to the greatest thinkers of the West: It should switch to a trimester system like the one currently in place for undergraduates at Stanford University. Trimesters would let students take nine courses in a year for the price of eight—three each term, with condensed courses providing a more concentrated academic experience without the frivolous projects. Competition from peer institutions and a shorter school year overall would hollow any excuses for a tuition hike. Although Stanford schedules its fall exams just before winter...
Following last Thursday’s 9-8 (3) loss to the Bulldogs—which lost 5-0 to No. 2 Stanford in the tournament finals—the Crimson’s top doubles team of junior co-captains Susanna Lingman and Courtney Bergman had a relatively smooth 8-4 victory over the Wildcats. Harvard’s second doubles duo followed suit with an identical win as Harvard clinched the doubles point...
...with the senior population expected to double over the next 30 years, experts like Schless project exponential growth in the number of such communities. By 2006 new retirement communities will have sprouted up alongside at least six major colleges and universities, including the University of Texas, UC Davis, Purdue, Stanford, Denison, Penn State and the University of Florida. The Stanford center, called the Classic Residence by Hyatt, in northern California won't open until May 2005, but 305 of the 388 units have already been sold. Starting at $600,000 a unit, prices rise to $3.9 million...
Norma and Setsuo Dairiki chose the Stanford community because their three children live in the area and because they wanted to be close to Setsuo's alma mater. The 81-year-old retired engineer is eager to take music and theater classes at the college and watch the school's basketball and football games. In 1942 the Dairikis were sequestered in a camp as part of the U.S.'s wartime internment of the Japanese, and Setsuo missed his Stanford graduation. "We could only take what we could carry," Norma, 77, says of their experience. "We brought one suitcase and stayed...
...fall season, hampered by lingering off-season rust and injuries which curtailed the play of several team members. But those setbacks did not dissuade voters from giving the Crimson the highest ranking of any Ivy or Northeast region school. Defending national champion Florida topped the polls, while Stanford...