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...long turned to education to prepare our citizens for the political equality fundamental to our national self-definition. In 1779, for example, Thomas Jefferson called for a national aristocracy of talent, chosen, as he put it, “without regard to wealth, birth, or other accidental condition of circumstance?? and “rendered by liberal education ... able to guard the sacred deposit of rights and liberties of their fellow-citizens.” As our economy has become more complex, more tied to specialized knowledge, education has become more crucial to social and economic mobility. W.E.B...
Faust, the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, will be formally installed as the University's president on Oct. 12 in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. While the fall inauguration ceremonies are usually full of pomp and circumstance??the new president receives ancient symbols of office including two silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest college record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650—Sunday's official changing of the guard passed with little fanfare...
Granted, this small abbreviation is not the college’s largest concern. But it does make me yearn for a diploma that reflects all of Harvard’s pomp and circumstance??a degree presented entirely in Latin. Harvard bigwigs still view Latin as relevant enough to have a Latin oration during Commencement, (although those graduating are given a translation in their programs). The ancient language still conjures a sense of antiquity and grandeur, whether or not we know what it means...
...company paid the $2 million ransom they were demanding. In other words, his life is worth as much money as 10,000 African lives. When lives are put in stark terms of cash value—one life the victim of extortionists and the other the victim of cruel circumstance??the disparity in “value” is shockingly vast. How can one justify saving one life when one could save...
Divorce is one “special circumstance?? frequently presented to the financial aid committee. Illness is certainly another. Jessica Matthews ’04, a Winthrop House resident, covers over $32,000 of her expenses through loans each year, partly due to her mother’s breast cancer. “Although the cancer is currently in remission, my mother has no sick days left from when she was recovering. It is incredibly hard for her to miss work. This causes stress when she needs to go get check-ups. She also had to have another...
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