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...three judges who assessed last night's performance represented the three fields dependent on rhetoric--the clergy, the bar and academia--which John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787 and the University's first Boylston professor, celebrated in his course on rhetoric and oral delivery. Undergraduates in the 19th century took the course for three of their four years at Harvard...
...lightning-fast rise through academia drew plenty of attention. Another rumor held that he was on Time magazine's list of the 30 most influential people under 30. Well, almost. The now defunct Swing magazine told Elkies they were interviewing him for an article on the 30 most interesting people under 30. "But before it went to press," Elkies said, "they decided that ‘interesting' wasn't interesting enough, so they made it the 30 most powerful people under 30. They must have been using a rather abstruse definition of the word powerful, though, because the list included...
...religion for Harvard intellectualism isn't a fair trade at all. One made me feel viscerally certain of my role in the world. The other can't even explain for certain what started the Civil War, or why Lyndon B. Johnson's wife was named "Lady Bird." Here among academia's best and brightest, there are still some things I feel, and don't rationally know, about the world. I trust that life has a purpose higher than procreation and accumulation, for instance. I'm certain of the importance of honor. I believe that kozmo.com can deliver to your room...
Moreover, the new professorship, named in honor of renowned musician Quincy Jones, directly attests to the prominent position the Harvard Afro-American Studies Department holds in the field, as well as in academia as a whole. Several top-tier universities have Afro-American studies departments, making Time Warner's decision to entrust Harvard with its money symbolic of the University's unparalleled commitment to Afro-American studies over the past 10 years under President Neil L. Rudenstine's tenure...
...Public Policy concentrator. "When I needed advice on courses I asked upperclassmen or teammates who I felt could give better advice and were more similar to me than my adviser. I know of one of my friends who has a non-resident adviser who has nothing to do with academia, which I find kind of amusing...