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Johnson published his first book??”Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market”—about the inner workings of 19th century slave markets. The piece, for which Johnson garnered multiple awards, is a “pioneering study” that draws upon the slaves’ own narratives to divulge the strategies they used to manipulate the market, Gordon said...
...interactions with students, faculty, and alumni this time around suggest that a more open, inclusive search is underway.Whether the committee members take the advice or not, they are poised to have great influence over Harvard’s future path.‘THE BOSTON PHONE BOOK??Students, faculty, and staff opened their e-mail inboxes in mid-April to find a note from Houghton soliciting their advice on the search. Hard copies of the letter were mailed to about 320,000 alumni.In response, eager friends of the University have submitted an enormous list of potential candidates?...
...message contained instructions for accessing the social club’s punch book??containing all the negative and positive comments of club members about potential new members—as well as for accessing private e-mails detailing the club’s interactions with other clubs and with their new members. I had a decision to make...
According to its website, Lamont Library is the brainchild of Keyes D. Metcalf, Harvard’s top librarian until 1955. But Lamont also owes credit to the educational philosophy of Metcalf’s time, embodied by the famous “Red Book?? of 1943. Written by a group of faculty led by Provost Paul H. Buck and President James B. Conant ’13, the “Red Book?? declared the high purpose of a 20th Century undergraduate education: Harvard must not just teach skills but also civic character, moral temerity...
...several of the stories—and in the fictional “Taskbook for the New Nation,” from which he has lifted the epigraphs to the book??s four sections—Saunders also draws on the semantically void self-inflations of the vocabulary of the War on Terror...