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...accomplishments. “Report cards should reflect what’s going on in the classroom, not the standards,” said Walser. “We have the MCAS [Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System] to test kids on standards.” —Staff writer William M. Goldsmith can be reached at wgoldsm@fas.harvard.edu...
Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, -who initiated the review of general education and chose the members of the current committee, likened the trajectory of the four-year-old review to the life of an undergraduate...
...gift shop, launched last week, allows members to send their friends an icon of anything from a box of cyber chocolates to a roll of toilet paper. The shop is the brainchild of recent Harvard alums and current Facebook employees, Jared S. Morgenstern ’03 and William P. Chen ’06, according to Facebook spokeswoman Brandee D. Barker. In February, every member’s first gift is free and each subsequent present costs a dollar. Net proceeds will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization that raises funds for breast cancer...
...patient may respond to certain drugs. According to Garraway, few diagnostic tests exist currently that can provide patients with mutation information for multiple genes. “Until recently we have had to use direct sequencing to find specific mutations in tumors,” wrote William C. Hahn, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, in an e-mail. “While this can be done, it is a bit of an involved process and can be quite expensive.” According to Garraway, the average cost of profiling each sample in his experiment was under...
...Reconstruction, Harvard was in need of its own rejuvenation. The Corporation chose Charles William Eliot as president in 1869 after he published an article titled “The New Education” in The Atlantic Monthly. This “new education,” emphasizing more personal choice and practicality, would need a special kind of leader. The 35-year-old Eliot considered himself that kind...