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...crimson-colored volumes of Harvard history that collect dust on the shelves of the Widener reference room, one can barely find mention of the thousands of African-Americans who received Harvard degrees. For example, the index to Three Centuries of Harvard, the famous history written by Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, for the tercentenary celebration in 1936, does not even mention Du Bois! Or consider the case half a dozen years ago of a Harvard Crimson reporter who wrote a feature article in which he praised University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, for democratizing Harvard housing...
...Boys scouts used to go to the gas stations and collect rubber mats from cars to contribute them to the war effort,” he says...
...before an expanding universe, or before the periodic table, or before Chomsky, Turing, Darwin, Keynes and Einstein are long gone. The great men and their great discoveries have sucked the exhilarating marrow out of the great fields of science. All we do now is stand on their shoulders to collect stamps that nature has stuck to the ceiling...
...committee is open to all views. We’ve heard from many different viewpoints,” Katz said. “We’ve done a lot of work trying to collect quantitative and qualitative data...
...course? Wedding bells certainly don’t have to follow Commencement, but warning bells don’t have to either. More important, though, is that professional success shouldn’t trump other considerations in the decision. Because no matter how many Beamers and Birkins you collect, money still can’t buy you love...