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...task to set their minds on fire.” From funding social events and renovations to revamping financial aid to teaching courses himself, Summers has been the president most actively involved in undergraduate life in recent memory. As many of today’s graduates will attest, these changes have noticeably begun to improve undergraduate life. Summers has made Harvard College relevant again.But for all the goods things Summers brought with him from Washington D.C.—his sense of urgency and his knack for pursing the right ideas—Summers lacked the diplomatic grace...
It’s remarkable how little changes at Harvard, as these selected editorials from the 1955-56 school year attest. Typewriters may have turned into laptops, Ike and Nixon into Bush and Cheney, and the Student Council into the Undergraduate Council, but the challenges and issues facing Harvard and the nation today—and the morsels of advice given to incoming freshmen—are shockingly similar to 50 years ago. So take a glimpse at the issues, the opinions, the life, and the students that animated Harvard...
...Harvard’s commencement, I might vomit a little in my mouth, and I would certainly disagree vehemently from the audience, but it would take a lot to get me to issue jeers or to criticize the University for their invitation. Having dated a Republican, I can attest: you learn more (about being a liberal, about politics in general) from listening and engaging in productive debate than you do from heckling. Understanding the counterargument can only help your argument...
...that was the end of it, I really couldn’t complain. After all, I spent a good number of years helping The Crimson Staff tell people what to think (and as anyone who’s ever eaten dinner with me can attest, it’s a bit of a personal weakness as well). But the new media is different in two important ways...
...acknowledges her status, as well as her stage fright: “As intrepid as actors are, and as long as a career may be, you still are terrified of walking in front of people.”But as 13 Oscars nods will attest, for now, Streep can handle the pressure. —Staff writer Lindsay A. Maizel can be reached at lmaizel@fas.harvard.edu...