Word: trended
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard’s inaugural advising week wraps up, concentration-hopping freshmen may have noticed a trend among departments starving for concentrators (and attention). In fact, with East Asian Studies doling out sushi, Computer Sciences offering ice cream, and various concentrations stuffing prospects with stuffed-crust pizza, it’s pretty obvious that intellectual curiosity wasn’t the only thing these desperate departments were catering to. Given the fixation with food, FM’s nutrition experts created a concentration-guide pyramid to help students make healthy choices. Chosen sparingly—Endangered concentrations (where fats, oils...
...program. Next year’s FIP class will require the addition of several FIP-leader positions and a relocation out of Weld, where FIPpers were traditionally housed. Despite these challenges, Gong and Richards have expressed confidence in their plans for the future.The Society’s trend toward openness has already shown signs of success. Expansion in the name of openness will bring novel challenges for Woodbridge’s leaders, but if they succeed, it seems they will benefit not just internationals, but the entire Harvard community...
This phenomenon, in the end, is what should trouble those of who believe Harvard must remain an unapologetically American institution. The new general education requirement is welcome, but unless it can help reverse the steady trend toward post-nationalism on campus, it may well prove fruitless. In that case, students lacking an affinity for America should not be surprised if they find, upon leaving Harvard, that America lacks an affinity for them...
...seen a perfectly happy individual have a nervous breakdown caused by getting a B+ in a core. We reside in a group of mentally mercurial, sensitive fools. Which is why I feel I feel that Harvard is especially well suited for adopting the wide-leg pants trend with ease: because if we can’t embrace the extremes of pant width, then who can? THREE TIPS FOR LEG-WIDENING 1) Pair these pants with something tighter on top so that you don’t look like you were in the wild with only a burlap sack for clothing...
...recent years, cross-disciplinary research has become cutting edge among the world’s leading scholarly institutions. Harvard’s leadership is well aware of the growing trend, and last week took a significant step to foster such coordination between its faculties: The Harvard Corporation has announced that it is creating Harvard’s first University-wide department, the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology. The University-wide department promises to bring together faculty from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), encouraging collaboration and streamlining Harvard’s resources...