If Harvard's performance justified the higher salaries, we might not be so concerned. But it doesn't....Other leading universities typically also perform as well or better than Harvard does over the long term, while paying far lower combinations...

As Harvard embarks on the biggest fundraising campaign in higher education history, we think the University's reluctance to reassess HMC's purpose and procedures is unfortunate. There has never been a better time for a comprehensive re-evaluation of the way Harvard manages its money.   April 29, 1994

It is increasingly clear that the term "core" is a misnomer. The name implies that what is learned in the core is basis, essential knowledge for a liberal arts education. The reality is that the core is a selection of poorly administrated classes of peripheral importance to student's educations...

The program, created in 1979, was intended as a means of teaching students "approaches to knowledge."...

But is the core is supposed to teach "approaches to teachers don't appear to know how.

Ways of improving the core are out there. Unfortunately, the administration doesn't seem to be looking for them...   April 26

...Harvard's administration must put an end of its cowardly dance with discrimination: Cut all ties with ROTC, effective with the Class of 1999.

The military's policy only lingers because of lingering prejudice, which fosters ridiculous stereotype and false assumptions...

By affirming its own ethical stand against discrimination, the University would be sending an urgent message to washington, and to the rest of the country. Harvard could credibly use its bully pulpit to decry the military's ban on gays as nothing more than a homophobic defense of the status quo...   April 29