Word: academia
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...symbols matter, just as Summers and Faust have shown by speaking at the ROTC commissioning ceremonies. If Congress repeals “don’t ask, don’t tell” and Harvard fully recognizes ROTC, the military and academia might finally heal a divide that is now four decades...
...Part of the reason I’m going into academia is because I realize that the Republican Party will continue to fail if it doesn’t apply lessons in the classroom and research to everyday political situations,” Kwong says...
...Harvard will graduate yet another class of seniors and commend them to prestigious positions in regions far-flung across the globe. Even with the economic downturn, no doubt this class—like all before it—will eventually fill the highest echelons in government, finance, law, and academia...
...Neither Harvard nor contemporary university pedagogy esteems this old ideal. The intellectual fads that currently enthrall academia long ago abdicated any concern with ends: Education, under this regime, is merely a question of means. Students indeed may write well and argue their points persuasively and powerfully, but toward which goal and on behalf of which argument they may exercise their faculties are questions never asked. Scientific training, assisted by advanced technology, points toward an ever-expanding horizon of information to be gathered and knowledge to be pursued, but with little concern for what purpose such research ultimately may be used...
...personal life, McCarthy has applied the same dedication and enthusiasm he brings to academia and advocacy. As a senior resident tutor and LGBT advisor in Quincy House where he lived as a student, he relishes his role as a part of the undergraduate experience. “I’m fully part of the rhythm of Harvard College,” said McCarthy. “And I’m not a particularly good dancer but I feel like if there’s a song that I dance to pretty well it’s that song...