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...Crimson’s prowess on either end of the ice shows on paper—Harvard leads the nation in scoring offense (4.60) and scoring defense (1.24), boasting the highest scoring margin in the league (3.36). This balance has been vital to the success of the team and its rise to No. 1 in the nation...
...It’s such an interesting book as a primary source,” says Allgor. “Many think it’s just saccharine…but it touches on a number of vital historical topics—transcendentalism, domesticity, women’s issues, slavery, and the Civil...
...recent weeks, HUPD and College administrators took the important step of e-mailing safety advisories directly to students, bypassing the unreliable, trickle-down flow of e-mails from HUPD to University officials to tutors and proctors. By contacting students directly, the College ensures that all students are privy to vital safety information in a timely manner. This new practice should become standard policy...
...longer be at the forefront of research, and with office and research space scarce across Harvard—especially in the sciences where lab space is increasingly expensive and specialized—departments will have a tough time prioritizing resources appropriately. Furthermore, expanding the Faculty will become ever more vital as the demography of the Faculty becomes increasingly dominated by older members. Harvard should look within its own ranks and tenure more junior faculty, who are already familiar with the University and its students. Many non-tenured professors deserve to continue their cutting-edge work here instead of being forced...
...Your Heart on Fire? Not long ago, most doctors thought of heart attacks as primarily a plumbing problem. Over the years, fatty deposits would slowly build up on the insides of major coronary arteries until they grew so big that they cut off the supply of blood to a vital part of the heart. A complex molecule called LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, provided the raw material for these deposits. Clearly anyone with high LDL levels was at greater risk of developing heart disease...