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...disheartening truth is that faculty cannot be motivated to devote their energies to crucial survey materials, the government department should turn to a competent, engaging lecturer who can cultivate a coherent program over time. While there will likely be disagreement over what should be taught in such a course, tough decisions must be made in the interest of undergraduates. Sophomore tutorials offer a valuable opportunity to impart a uniform body of knowledge to all concentrators, and, in doing so, build cohesion within the class and the department; moreover, concentrators benefit tremendously from a common foundation that can serve...
...Galbraith taught at Princeton University, served in the Roosevelt administration, and worked as an editor of Fortune magazine. He returned to Harvard in 1948 to lead a study on agricultural marketing...
...term School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 campaigned to get the University to withdraw its investments from South Africa. Today, Nolan says her participation in that movement, which led to the Harvard Corporation’s partial divestment from its South African stock in 1986, taught her that with enough support grassroots movements could be successful. “That gave me a sense that you can effect change if you have enough dedicated people working on it and you mobilize the entire community,” she says.A quarter-century later, Nolan, now a mother...
DIED. Jane Jacobs, 89, self-taught urban-planning guru whose clear, sensible voice--most famously in her seminal 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities--miffed the powerful and revolutionized the field; in Toronto. She challenged the accepted wisdom on urban renewal--razing areas and erecting isolated, uniform housing projects--arguing instead for restoring old buildings, creating new ones of similar scale and mixing residents and merchants in a happily messy universe of neighborhoods. During a 12-year battle with powerful city planner Robert Moses, whose bid to build a highway through her former neighborhood of lower...
...Ontario-born Galbraith taught at Harvard from 1934 to 1939, and then returned to the school...