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Thankfully, this story is not fact, but fiction—taken from William Faulkner’s famous novel, The Sound and the Fury. There’s no proof that Faulkner even visited the campus before publishing the novel in 1929. But Faulkner fanatics have ensured that Compson will be remembered alongside other—albeit more visibly memorialized—Harvard figures such as Harry Widener...
...search for a senior—or tenured—Faculty member, or the procedure for granting tenure to an associate professor, begins when a department requests authorization from Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to conduct a search, Tompkins said...
This means that the Life Sciences, currently the only one of four divisions in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) without a dean, will continue to lack a single administrator to ferret out hires, approve new initiatives and represent the departments to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby. Earlier this fall, Kirby was optimistic that the post would be filled by this spring...
Moving forward, the most positive review proposal was the development of the new so-called “Harvard College Courses.” As Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby put it, these courses have been designed to provide “a rigorous foundation to a student’s education” and will “introduce bodies of knowledge, concepts, and major texts.” In theory, these courses should provide a fantastic centerpiece to a Harvard education. (Whether in practice they will be nothing more than Core classes with traditional hoop-jumping...
Levin Professor of Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature William M. Todd spoke yesterday of the “spirit of trust that informs the report,” referring in part to the trust placed in students by reducing graduation requirements and granting students more freedom to choose their own courses...