Word: stuarts
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...Stuart L. Meyer, EVANSTON...
It’s particularly unfortunate because one of the University’s most controversial (and least defensible) policies is aimed at currying favor (and funds) from alumni. That policy, legacy preference, gives a tip in the admissions process to applicants whose parents attended Harvard. To paraphrase John Stuart Mill, alumni children gain this advantage by the mere fact of being born. University officials say the legacy preference policy is meant to express gratitude toward alumni, who serve as interviewers for the admissions committee and who donate hundreds of millions of dollars to Harvard each year. But Harvard...
...thesis writers find topics that they believe in from the start. Stuart J. Robinson ’06 wrote an award-winning philosophy thesis last year on “interpersonal forgiveness” because, as he told me, he felt that questions about reconciliation were applicable to every person’s life. But overall I am not convinced that topics exist in an hierarchy of relevance or that thesis writers have to begin with a pet topic. Take just about any topic and research it with enough verve, and you will find that eventually you could vouch...
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson...
...announced Jones’ resignation yesterday morning in a brief e-mail to students and faculty. Stuart Schmill, formerly senior associate director of admissions, was named to fill the vacancy until a permanent successor is found. The shake-up comes at the tail end of the admissions season, with matriculation decisions due next week...