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Citigroup chief financial officer Ned Kelly was trying to explain an aspect of the bank's better-than-expected first-quarter results on Friday morning when star analyst Meredith Whitney interrupted him. "Could you dumb that down for me?" she asked...
...plate. To peruse these plaques along the perimeter of the room is to travel back in time through a chronicle of Harvard luminaries—L. Grossman, J. Atlas, T. S. Eliot, J. Ashbery, T. Roosevelt. History’s presence is ubiquitous in the Advocate, suspended over every aspect of the publication. Bookshelves sag with yellowing issues, and century-old, sepia-toned photographs of all-male editors hang above the fireplace, observing—from a bygone era—the activities of the publication today. This balance between revering history and promoting the avant-garde is what distinguishes...
...about the concentration is that it allows you to sample many extra-departmental courses and count them for concentration credit. As the oldest Harvard concentration, Hist & Lit tends to kick it old school, with a heavy emphasis on tutorials, small classes, and personal attention for concentrators. A less fortunate aspect of the old school method: lots of hard work. An application is required to enter the concentration; other requisites include an oral exam at the end of sophomore and senior year, a junior research essay, and a student bibliography of studied texts to be prepared at the end of sophomore...
...Ganeshananthan’s college roommate. Yet come senior year, she was still making changes. “Sugi had more sleepless nights than anyone else I remember,” Halpern says. As Ganeshananthan’s thesis advisor, Kincaid remembers a different aspect of her thesis process. “She’s a good writer; I was just sort of standing by,” Kincaid says. “You read, you make suggestions, and you correct, but in the end, it’s hers.” After graduating from Harvard, Ganeshananthan went...
...about the concentration is that it allows you to sample many extra-departmental courses and count them for concentration credit. As the oldest Harvard concentration, Hist & Lit tends to kick it old school, with a heavy emphasis on tutorials, small classes, and personal attention for concentrators. A less fortunate aspect of the old school method: lots of hard work. An application is required to enter the concentration; other requisites include an oral exam at the end of sophomore and senior year, a junior research essay, and a student bibliography of studied texts to be prepared at the end of sophomore...