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...large gifts are more willing to do so when a substantial number of their classmates are contributing what they can.” The alumni giving rate constitutes 5 percent of a school’s overall score in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of America??s best colleges. Harvard dropped to second place—behind Princeton—in the rankings this year. Princeton boasts an alumni giving rate of 61 percent. The declining rate at which Harvard alumni contribute may reflect greater competition from other charities, which have grown in number...
Foreign Cultures is a requirement? Henry Cabot Lodge, noted isolationist and member of the Class of 1871, would not be thrilled. “Harvard students are learning about foreigners?” he would yell, waving his cane, pocketwatch flailing about. “At America??s premier institution of higher learning? Balderdash!” Lodge would then lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad...
...History Steven Ozment, who leads B-18, “The Protestant Reformation.”If major historical events interest you less than the everyday lives of dull, dead people, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America?? receives consistently high marks. And if that’s not enough of a specific year for you, there’s another; B-34, “The World in 1776,” team-taught by visiting professor Emma Rothschild, Richard Tuck, and Sugata Bose...
...Applebee’s walls (the kitschy flair makes mothers forget about terrorist attacks in war-torn states), these business principles seem less directed towards the lay reader and more at that slimy kid in your economics section. A major flaw in “Applebee’s America?? is that while the authors try to discuss “the average American,” the book’s principles are directed towards political and business elite, at times sounding like a manual for money-making. The last part of the book describes the societal...
...because he tells powerful stories—about a pregnant, unwed teenager (“Brenda’s Got A Baby”), about a friendship that falls apart because of drugs (“If My Homie Calls”), about a criminal called “America?? that is charged with the murder, robbery, and false imprisonment of black people (“Words of Wisdom?...