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...don’t consider myself remarkably brilliant or even the hardest worker,” Phillips said. “In fact I did a lot of extracurriculars.” But, he added, “I kept pretty organized juggling both the extracurriculars and the academics??it seemed to work.” Phillips, who was making his second run at a coveted PBK spot after falling short in the fall, will be heading off to Hollywood after graduation as a scriptwriter for a film production company. “I kind of was like...
...report is not anything new. Rumors of some elusive Golden Age of Harvard academics??–when professors and tutors "actually" cared about teaching, when graduate students did not need to publish-or-perish at the expense of instruction, and when learning was the rule, not the exception––have been circulating about campus since I arrived. Yet when it comes to undergraduate teaching (and cries for its improvement), things haven’t changed much in 300 years...
...president-turned-professor is one of 21 prominent academics??18 men and three women—from across the country who will offer thoughts on campus life and current events on “Open University,” a new blog launched by The New Republic in late August...
University President Lawrence H. Summers last week blasted a British boycott of Israeli academics??drawing flack from a familiar foe and applause from his allies. Summers’ statement on the British boycott evokes echoes of his September 2002 Memorial Church address, in which he excoriated a group of Harvard and MIT professors who had called on the University to cut financial ties to Israel. “Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent,” Summers said at the time. On Tuesday...
University President Lawrence H. Summers this week blasted a British boycott of Israeli academics??drawing flack from a familiar foe and applause from his allies...