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...trickled in late, the Faculty achieved a quorum and approved the legislation overwhelmingly by voice vote.The first bill bars departments from restricting sophomore fall courses to would-be concentrators. But it allows them to declare certain courses as prerequisites for entering a concentration.Social Studies, for instance, may leave its year-long sophomore tutorial in place, philosopher Warren Goldfarb said at the meeting. The first half of Social Studies 10 could become open to all students, but required of those who choose to declare Social Studies at the end of their sophomore fall.Nevertheless, Goldfarb said the new legislation would take...
...years Heather has served on this faculty, she has become an important and superb scholar.” “I will miss her very much, as I know everyone else will,” she wrote.Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon, who taught with Gerken last year, called her departure a “terrible loss” for the Law School. “[Gerken] is a stunningly gifted teacher,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail. “A year ago, she and I co-taught a year-long seminar called...
...held his own against other contestants who were native speakers. “Now that I’ve been speaking for a year and a half, I feel confident in my Mandarin,” said Miller. The HHKS contest, in Boylston Hall, resumed after a year-long hiatus. The contest featured representatives from campus groups as well as Brown University, Babson College, Bentley College, and Boston College, singing songs in Mandarin and Cantonese. “The Hong Kong associations at all the different colleges are kind of small, so it’s easier...
...alien civilizations light-years away are sending us messages coded in pulses of light, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering Paul Horowitz ’65 will be one of the first to know. The Planetary Society, a leading non-profit space research organization, announced Tuesday that Horowitz will direct a year-long project to scan the Milky Way for light signals sent by extraterrestrial life using a new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. The telescope, which was dedicated in a ceremony Tuesday, is the largest optical telescope east of the Mississippi...
...It’s a great chance to learn a lot,” Reid said of the stacked opening weekend. “It is a bit scary—we’re very cognizant that this is a year-long process. If we come out of this weekend in good shape or in not good shape, either way we can’t afford to rest on our laurels...