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...sources. Last year, the center also awarded 24 grants. The Asia Center also reported a 22 percent increase in the number of applicants for thesis research and language study grants. Another major source of funding, the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), has delayed its decision for three weeks, frustrating students?? attempts to plan their summers. Corey M. Rennell ’07, who is a Crimson editor, said that three grant rejections and his pending application with HCRP influenced his decision to take next year off and accept a spot on an upcoming BBC and Discovery Channel documentary...
...skilled, they are dismissed as “pros.” Being a good athlete is fine, but there is something wrong with becoming a very good athlete. Superb Harvard athletes are suspected of not being what former Princeton president William G. Bowen calls “regular students?? in “Reclaiming the Game,” his indictment of intercollegiate athletics at selective colleges. It is another piece of our aristocratic athletic heritage to pretend that true athletes, amateur athletes, are dispassionate about their sports and uninterested in perfecting their skills. In reality, athletic...
...lives of inherited wealth. A real curricular review in today’s socio-economically diverse and distinctively American Harvard would have encouraged students to achieve their best rather than enjoy dumbed-down requirements. In the classroom as on the field, Harvard should find pride rather than shame in students?? ambition for expertise, and should shape rather than suppress their competitive spirit...
...Faculty on Tuesday, Schoenfeld and her classmates will be the last students forced to commit to a concentration with only eight courses under their academic belts.The legislation, which pushes the concentration choice deadline back to the middle of sophomore year, has two major implications for the structure of students?? education.First, the move requires many departments to overhaul their year-long sophomore tutorials, forcing them to offer a fall tutorial open to all sophomores, squeeze the curriculum into one spring tutorial, or extend the tutorial program into the junior year.Second, the later deadline will likely reduce concentration requirements...
...have distinct purposes with respect to student groups. The CCL’s role is to grant to groups basic recognition, which effectively means access to campus space and use of the Harvard name. The UC’s role, on the other hand, is to allocate students?? money, which has been specifically designated on students?? termbills for distribution by the UC (and not by the College). Since students pay this fee with the understanding that their elected representatives will decide how to spend the money, the UC should not defer to any other body?...