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...almost 70 ponies. But no college kids to ride them. That’s the whole point of the Ivy Cup Charity Polo Match, scheduled for Saturday, May 20th. It will pit alumni teams from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell against one another in the spirit of old school altruism and good-natured competition.The annual tournament is in its fifth year, although this is the first time Princeton and Cornell are participating. Previously, it was just an outlet for the Harvard-Yale rivalry, according to organizers.You don’t have to be an Ivy grad to attend, as long...
...complied a list of 10 things I wish I learned sooner (to the extent that I ever really learned them). As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.” So, in this spirit of altruism, follow the random musings of a senior with too much time on her hands:1. Writing a thesis is a good thing. Yes it’s painful, sure, it’s horrible, and yes, I went through at least one week without sleeping, showering, or eating...
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker: “The Possibility of Altruism,” Thomas Nagel “Created from Animals,” James Rachels “The Expanding Circle,” Peter Singer “The Moral Animal,” Robert Wright “Passions Within Reason,” Robert Frank “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Woody Allen “Enemies: A Love Story,” Isaac Bashevis Singer “The Legacy of Raizel Kaidish” (in the collection...
...things make this kind of innovation possible, one obvious and one not. The obvious one is--say it with me--the Internet. The other one, the surprising one, is a curious phenomenon you could call intellectual altruism. It turns out that given the opportunity, people will donate their time and brainpower to make the world better. There's an online encyclopedia called Wikipedia written entirely by anonymous experts donating their expertise. It has the unevenness you'd expect from anything that's user-created and user-edited, but it's still the most useful reference resource anywhere...
...take us as a society? When the shared ideal is to be like Mr. Spock instead of Dr. Spock, and to emulate Dr. Jonas Salk rather than Marcus Welby, M.D., who will stroke humanity's fevered forehead? No one, I fear, unless we use our brainpower to develop an altruism pill...