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...think about the whole experience that students have, and obviously the concentration is a huge part of their experience.”The increased departmental emphasis on the needs of students not bound for graduate school appears consistent with the final report of the College’s Task Force on General Education, which emphasizes that since only a small fraction of graduating seniors plan to enter academia, scholarly training is comparatively less important than the sensibilities necessary to make thoughtful decisions in the world.This heightened focus on practice over scholarly theory is best reflected by the Music department?...
...extra energy, Wrangham argues, allows humans to maintain their large brains. “Once you appreciate that point, you can understand that there has been an evolutionary adaptation taking advantage of cooked food.” At the same time, easily digestible food frees the body from the task of chewing. Chimpanzees spend half their day chewing their food, energy not spent in more constructive activities, said Daniel E. Lieberman, a fellow anthropology professor and chair of department’s biological anthropology wing. The book counters earlier hypotheses about human evolution, such as the theory that human evolution...
...from cash-strapped foundations. While stimulus funds have temporarily swelled the budgets of federal science agencies, the long-term picture for government funding is hazy at best, and may fall victim to deficit-cutting two years from now. Within Harvard, the deans and central administrators have had the unenviable task of cutting budgets in order to match our expenses to our newly constrained resources. We have all spent many hours since October engaged in these painful exercises...
...Gregory A. Olson ’83, who was charged with the task of introducing Falcone to city life during his trip to Cambridge as a recruit, remembers him as a teenager who was “very much from Chisholm, Minnesota,” a town of 5,000 people that made up in hockey obsession for what it lacked in population...
When it comes to student life, good intentions are one thing, but good execution is another. This year saw the introduction of many new initiatives, among which were the green campus campaign, the Harvard Task Force on the Arts, the Report on Harvard Housing Renewal, and exciting plans for calendar changes. Students, however, benefit most when the administration follows through with its plans and takes student opinion into consideration. Likewise, efforts to improve social life at Harvard are much more likely to be successful if thoughtfully executed.By far, Harvard’s campaign to “green?...