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...Female poets have long been in the running for the post: As far back as 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered for the laureateship after Wordsworth's death, but it passed on to Tennyson instead. However, in choosing how to announce her new job Friday morning, Duffy made sure her snubbed predecessors weren't forgotten. The name of the BBC program on which she broke the historic news? Woman's Hour. (Read about America's busiest poet, Kay Ryan...
...Just so people don’t have too much of an impression of what they’re going to see already coming into the show, we’re going for a timeless approach,” she says. “Just making sure that the intention is there, audience members will still get the intention, even if the language isn’t casual, like you hear everyday,” she says, “that’s actually...
...constructive solutions to the FAS budget problems,” he said. Campbell said he sees his two main tasks as chair to be “ensuring the vitality of the faculty in a time when resources are tight” and “mak[ing] sure that economics at Harvard is a meaningful intellectual experience and that it isn’t just a set of large impersonal lectures.” But in light of the difficult times, Campbell said that he “take[s] over as chair of a department that I think...
...organize the piles of paper.The incoming documents—including the applications, secondary school reports, and teacher recommendations—then get scanned, a process that began this year as an electronic back-up system. “It’s really a security device to make sure we have an electronic record of the applications in case the building burns down,” said Director of Admissions Marilyn McGrath-Lewis ’70-’73.Every morning Anderson prints applications from the Common Application Web site—through which about 94 percent...
...David Forst, the guy who had shortstop held down at Harvard when Kantrovitz looked at the school for the first time.Forst insists that Kantrovitz was good enough to find playing time no matter who was in front of him on the depth chart, while Kantrovitz is equally sure that he would have been hard-pressed to see daylight at shortstop for the Crimson in his freshman year. Of course, the decision would have been Walsh’s to make, and the Harvard coach’s verdict is in line with Kantrovitz’s thought...