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Female students sometimes asked me if I had belonged to a sorority. I told them firmly that there were no sororities at Harvard. This was my turn to be wrong—there are, and apparently today??s young Harvard women enjoy being “punched” as much as the young...
...first time in recent memory, Harvard again has its own beer—a micro-brewed ale unveiled this year. But beyond that, today??s ceremony is utterly unlike its 17th-century precursor. There will be no debate among members of the Class of 2007. And alumni in the audience certainly won’t be asked for their views...
...course, I can’t say that for sure. Though today??s afternoon exercises are (technically) “the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association,” don’t expect an open-forum “town meeting” out of New England’s Puritan past. On matters of import, “Analysis Grammatical, Logicall and Rhetoricall” is relegated to English-language newsprint...
Social Studies’ sense of itself as a particularly rigorous academic specialty has nevertheless lived on, a fact of which today??s students are only too aware. Bernstein said, “Social Studies has a cache to it, and some seniors have told me that they didn’t know what to do and they chose Social Studies because of its prestige.” She added, “Social Studies is a major commitment. We reject a few students—a very few—because of their academic record, but it?...
...changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools time to attend to the details of coordination.Though the original report of the Verba committee endorsed the creation of a January “J-term,” Bok left today??s proposal vague on this topic, writing that he would allow schools the “discretion to decide what, if any, programmatic use to make of the period from early January to the beginning of the spring term.”Bok’s announcement comes after...