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...million holdings in the library system. These are numbers that define and meter out the quantity of Harvard’s prestige. We are superior to our peer institutions, it seems, not on account of the efflorescence of our studies but on account of the upward slope of our trend lines. Immeasurable qualities are no longer important; in a quantified world, a given quality’s inability to cram into the cell of a spreadsheet has become a fatal flaw.And now the culture of quantification has leached down to the practice of everyday learning, with the exploding popularity...
Despite its recent less-than-subtle advertising blitz, the Government department has found itself with a dramatically reduced number of concentrators as compared to recent years. This is part of a continuing trend in which it seems many undergraduates are opting to leave the social sciences in general for more diverse academic endeavors. Though a drop in raw numbers may be disappointing for the Gov department’s marketing crew, we believe that this reduced concentration size is a good thing. Traditionally, Government has ranked among the largest of concentrations on campus, consistently wooing hundreds of undergraduates into...
...while Harvard has long been known for the strength of its humanities and social science offerings, the stark trend away from science appears to be more than students simply pursuing other interests...
Kreisberg also said the life science scholarships highlight the recent trend toward compartmentalization at the Business School...
...fall. Several other colleges and universities, including Middlebury College in Vermont and San Francisco State University, have since followed suit. Food and drink waste decreased by 30 to 50 percent after Alfred University in New York eliminated trays, according to the school’s Web site. Despite the trend, some Harvard dining employees doubt that taking trays away will have such a dramatic effect. “Students will just go back and forth,” DaCruz said. “I have seen plates without trays and the food is still coming.” Most Quincy...