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...struck by the idea that the blueprint for the great achievements of humanity may be encoded in the nucleotides of our DNA. But is it possible that the source of human creativity is simply beyond our comprehension? When I marvel at a Mozart adagio or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, I simply cannot grasp how each artist accomplished what he did. Human genius amazes because it is a mystery. If science could explain how genius came to be, the wonder would be gone...
This wasn’t always the case. Harvard began as a seminary, and its earliest ideal was Charles Kingsley’s “manly Christian character,” which was propagated in the form of the daily chapel and which the liberal reformist Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished in 1886. Later, with the rise of science, the intellectual program came to revolve around citizenship and manly duty to society and state, but even this identity was lost during the 60s. The inclusion of minorities in the university system made the enforcement of WASP virtues...
Krawczyck is also working to provide lecture videos to public television stations in nearby Asheville and Chapel Hill after hearing that a Cambridge public access channel plans to broadcast select lectures this fall...
...will those with fewer advantages be helped by the new policy? It didn't happen at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). In 2002, one year after UNC banned early admissions, the number of fee waivers - which represent the number of students with limited means (a family of four needs to make less than $35,798 to qualify) - actually decreased...
...amount of students’ shared experiences at the College. For most of the College’s history, Harvard freshmen tended to arrive from a small number of elite prep schools, knowing each other and their families quite well. Most were Protestants, and so Harvard had a daily chapel. But as meritocracy gained traction within the admissions process, the communal institutions that were natural outgrowths of students’ homogeneity became outdated. In a revolutionary move in 1886, University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished the daily chapel service. The great books controversies of the 1960s removed...