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...with about 20 people yesterday evening. Avery, the co-author of “The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite,” praised former University President Lawrence H. Summers for overseeing the creation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 for helping end the College’s Early Action program last September. “I think there’s no way we would be here tonight without those two people,” Avery said at the event, which took place...
...surprisingly, it did not satisfy those who wanted a simple answer to the question of whether or not he believed in God. "The outcome of this doubt and befogged speculation about time and space is a cloak beneath which hides the ghastly apparition of atheism," Boston's Cardinal William Henry O'Connell said. This public blast from a Cardinal prompted the noted Orthodox Jewish leader in New York, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, to send a very direct telegram: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid. 50 words." Einstein used only about half his allotted number of words. It became...
...fine arts library and energized the relocation of the social sciences program,” she said. Economics Department Chair James H. Stock said that he first learned of the art books’ impending arrival in February 2006 from then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby. Then, in April 2006 came the news that the Littauer library collection would be moved out entirely.“This was a decision that was taken without our input, and one at which we were surprised,” said Stock. Kirby has said that the entire...
...Harvard, SAT scores for Harvard legacy students are “virtually identical” to those of the rest of the student body, Harvard College Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said. He said that the admissions committee looks beyond SAT results in deciding whom to accept...
...indicates a sad transfer of energy away from the integration of students and administrators. Mass. Hall—built in 1720—is the oldest standing building at Harvard and the second-oldest standing academic building in the United States (behind the Wren Building at The College of William and Mary). Originally constructed as a dormitory for students, the building was used as housing for soldiers during the siege of Boston in 1775 and 1776 and subsequently used as dormitory, office, and administrative space. In the 1920s it was converted back to a dormitory, and in 1939, the Harvard...