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...hallways.” Admission this year is likely to be more selective, Leopold said. Despite the increased interest, the school does not plan to admit more than about 100 students, the number accepted last year. The 2+2 program allows students to apply to HBS in the summer following their junior year of college. After graduating, admitted students enter the workforce for two years and then study for two years at the business school. Leopold and a panel of admitted students—currently seniors at the College—discussed the program with Harvard College students...
...favorites of mine, one of them is called “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self” that I think began 12 or 13 years ago, and it’s been fine-tuned fairly well. I’m going to teach it again this summer at the Venice Summer Harvard Program. The other one is called “Wit and Humor.” It’s a kind of an eccentric course. It’s a subject that is totally neglected in my field, where it’s regarded...
...writer and thus helps them to learn elements of fictional technique.”The Extension School also features a course titled “Writing the Novel,” which is taught by William J. Holinger, a former Expository Writing preceptor and current director of the Harvard Summer School Secondary School Program. Holinger has been teaching this course for over a decade, although this year he revamped it to present the material in a different way—emphasizing point of view, voice, and narration, as well as narrative structure and plot. Holinger says that he devotes...
...listlessly offering to help clean up. Then we’ll have to start negotiating the gridlock of cars in the driveway; people will exchange phone numbers, the right ones or made-up ones; the snow will start to thaw and spring will start to come, and then this summer and then next year. And Ellen will have to look at her sullen, Ivy-bound son, and pick up his sister and little brother from wherever they are, and the four of them will have to look into the fridge and wonder what to have for dinner, as I drive...
...Let’s go down to the lake and I’ll help you get some.”“OK.”The lake was a shimmering blue as we approached. The lake was where us children came on those beautiful summer days to go swimming. Those were good memories.About ten yards from the waterline, Katie spotted some good rocks. She collected a couple and I put them one by one into my backpack. We then walked along the lake and she picked up a few more rocks. All the while, I couldn?...