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...average Harvard student is helped by advising, but it's not necessary," says Adam J. Cohon '03. "The majority of their decisions are not affected by advising. In general, Harvard students are pretty independent...
...think of me as Dr. Drew, Dear Abby, Anne Landers, and Adam Corolla rolled up into one--although that would be a hideously ugly person. (Please send any future submissions to bleeve@netscape.net-this could become a semi-regular thing, if enough good letters accumulate...
...with peers, professors and parents was written. And one need only survey the delightful absurdity of letters included in the Collected Works of men worthy of such collections to recognize what we're missing. Take, for instance, a short letter from the Liberty Fund edition of the correspondence of Adam Smith. The main thrust of the letter from an 18-year-old Smith to his mother becomes apparent in its second and final paragraph: "In my Last Letter I desir'd you to send some Stocking's, the sooner you send 'em the better...
...there it is! At the front of his collected correspondence, the bulk of which is filled with exchanges with Hume, Adam Ferguson, Burke and other leading lights of the day. The letter was written in 1741, and Smith's mother died in 1784--having saved this particular letter for 43 years. Would even the most loving mother save a comparable e-mail? Surely one could print it out--many do--but it would take a truly saintly matron to preserve the cold legibility of computer type on flimsy white paper. Oh, for the days of illegible, personal scratches on parchment...
...What Adam Smith recognized was that ultimately, the success of markets depends on their remaining competitive," he said...