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While finishing the Fall semester before a longer and stress-free Winter vacation is the greatest improvement of the proposed calendar, there are additional benefits. The committee has also recommended that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving be included as a holiday and noted the possibility of taking the entire Thanksgiving week off from school, which the University administration should definitely explore when reviewing the committee’s report. The proposed calendar also includes an earlier start and a much earlier finish to the Spring semester, with exams finishing at least a week sooner in May. This extra time...
Harvard students often justifiably complain that our lives are overly stressful. The shift of Fall semester exams from January to December—a move that was favored by our peers by a two to one margin in a free-response online Undergraduate Council survey of more than 100 students carried out earlier this year—would provide a welcome stress-free block in the middle of the year. Especially as our school has become increasingly national and international, the importance of making the sometimes-long journey home with no accompanying work or conflicting commitments has increased...
...article is an extract from Who Are We?, a forthcoming book by Huntington that celebrates the importance of that Anglo-Protestant culture to American identity and attacks those who supposedly undermine it. The book is right to stress that the destiny of Mexican Americans is central to our future. But if you are going to claim that Mexican immigrants don't want to be Americans, your argument had better be watertight. Despite many statistics, Huntington doesn't make his case...
...addition to the importance of a healthy social life on its own, sociability is also an important supplement to academic life. “Improving the quality of life means improving the ways that students cope with the stress they will inevitably have,” Rosenthal says. “We are trying to graduate a class of scholars who can be leaders in social environments...
...Peter’s cynical take on his friend misguided? Perhaps. The stiff competition at Harvard amplifies the stress associated with the zero-sum competitions students face every day. This stress can cloud the judgments students make, particularly when distinguishing between their feelings of jealousy, anger and disappointment. Whether it be admission to a seminar, a spot in an a cappella group, or a prestigious fellowship, every student’s success comes at the expense of another...