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Still, the most successful aspect of the prefect program is the passing down of informal advice from battle-tested upperclassmen. Upperclassmen are able to provide course suggestions and social tips to first-years in ways that most proctors can’t. While many of the Yard??s proctors currently provide meaningful advising to their entryways, we feel that prefects, on the whole, are more effective than proctors at dispensing counsel to greenhorn first-years. Our eventual hope is to see prefects, instead of proctors, living in first-year dorms in a part-time advising capacity, much like...
...needed rejuvenation of the MAC has been long in the works, and the renovation—while not the extensive overhaul once envisioned—is an important step in the right direction. As the primary athletic facility for the majority of Houses—as well as the Yard??the addition of treadmills and spinning bikes will go a long way toward alleviating both the lack of availability and the rigid time-slotting so irksome to busy undergraduates. When viewed in light of other recent changes—such as the recent funding initiative to significantly enhance...
Dunlop’s sphere of influence was not confined by the Yard??s Ivy walls. He was reputed to fly to Washington as many as 50 times a year...
...Science Everett I. Mendelsohn says Summers has tried to exert much more influence over Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 than his predecessors, noting that “they feel constraints from across the old Yard??—where University administration building Mass. Hall sits...
...Corbusier’s “climbing street” was meant to connect Harvard’s architectural past—the buildings and diagonal paths of the Yard??with what was then thought to be the university’s future, along Prescott Street and beyond. Yet Harvard expanded in other directions, and only retrospectively can the ramp be seen as an idealistic move on the part of the architect, that, like the Carpenter Center itself, has evolved in purpose in the 40 years since its completion...