Word: academia
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...while we are the first to acknowledge Harvard’s problems—our decrepit curriculum, our rogue faculty, and our paltry dining hall hours—even these seemingly weighty faults cannot remove Harvard from its 370-year-old position atop academia...
...takes a rare degree of bravado, talent or self-delusion. Struggling to know which of those qualities he possesses is Larry Campbell, the neurotic young poet hero of Lynn Coady's very funny new novel, Mean Boy (Doubleday Canada; 382 pages), a sharp take on the follies of poets, academia and the small world of Canadian literature in the 1970s...
Still, Jaffe wasn’t sure she didn’t desire a life in academia until she finished writing her dissertation and realized that scholarly constraints did not sit well with a free spirit like herself. For Jaffe, the boiling point came when she was approached by a female professor at the culmination of her thesis...
Finally and most importantly, a faculty senate would only further retard progress at Harvard. On this page and on campus, a consensus has developed that if Harvard is to maintain its preeminence in academia, it must institute broad, progressive changes, something that has proven to be very difficult at an institution with a tremendous amount of inertia, history, and tradition. A University senate with more than symbolic power would only be an impediment to progress, slowing down the implementation of important decisions so they can be discussed at length by faculty members with already busy schedules—and that...
...share of mistakes,” Summers said in response, but he emphasized that no question should be “off-limits” at a university. Dunster House tutor Jason P. Brinton ’02 sought Summers’ advice for students entering business or academia. “I think one piece of advice I would offer is, when you make a mistake, recognize that you’ve made a mistake, and try to turn heat into light,” Summers said. “Try to learn from the mistake...