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...With Haviland graduated and making his way through the Oakland Athletics’ farm system, Perlman now bears the responsibility of taking charge of a pitching staff largely comprised of sophomores and freshmen...
...revisions were designed to improve the concentration’s flexibility and accessibility to students who have not previously studied classical languages, Schiefsky said. He added that he decided to initiate the curricular review last semester because the concentration’s requirements had become incoherent, the general exam system was not working well, and he was encountering students who were discouraged from joining the department because they did not think they could “manage” the curriculum.He said that the changes were not prompted by “a sense of crisis about numbers declining...
...global depression is not only terrible for its economic consequences—which are pretty bad indeed—but also for its socio-political effects. When poverty, unemployment, and hunger morph into fear, nationalism, and ethnic conflict, much more than our global financial system will be tested. Through protectionism, a matter of butter can quite easily become one of guns...
...preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the Protestant ministry. Now, it consists of 6,700 undergraduate men and women preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the current economy. With the demise of the Reason and Faith requirement in the new General Education system, religion at Harvard seems to have completed its trajectory from prime focus of the classroom to just another extracurricular activity. On the Harvard website, “Religious Groups” inhabit a drop-down menu of activities cheek-by-jowl with “Academic & Pre-Professional...
...editors, Owen C. Barron ’10, said that the new issue’s overarching goal was to show how the economic crisis extends beyond the borders of the United States. “These articles are just one step forward in reforming the system,” Owen added. The review’s second launch party of the year, the event was designed to promote the publication within the Harvard community. While the HIR is distributed worldwide, the review has a relatively low profile on campus, said Barron. “We’re really...