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...predominance of the umbrella on Harvard sidewalks is surely a sign of the tragedy of the commons. The good of the public realm has been subsumed under the convenience of the individual, and personal expedience has been allowed to trump the interests of the commonwealth. Vision obscured by the opaque nylon, the umbrella user becomes a lumbering cyclone of eye-gouging points. The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1978 published a paper on “orbitofacial wounds” caused by umbrella tips, warning that these injuries often go “unrecognized” and stressing...
...2007—would allocate $500 million for the construction of research facilities, $250 million for fellowships and grants, and $250 million in tax incentives over the next 10 years. Aimed at promoting Massachusetts as a center for biotechnology and furthering stem cell research at universities in the Commonwealth, this initiative has the potential to greatly benefit Harvard and Massachusetts. By providing $250 million for fellowships and grants for research, the bill will hopefully serve to help retain more of Harvard’s junior faculty. Often, the temptation to migrate to states where research funding is greater...
...about McGlothlin’s pledge withdrawal for the purpose of “puffing up the endowment to convince the Board of Visitors.” “He has denied more information to myself, newspapers, other delegates, other citizens, than any other person in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Marshall said. H. Patrick Furman, a law professor at the University of Colorado who worked under Nichol when he served as the dean of Colorado’s law school, said the Board of Visitor’s decision sent a message of intolerance...
Similar to its Yale counterpart in terms of delegated state authority, HUPD is a private entity deputized by the Commonwealth...
...example that could spread. In place of a closed, privileged, and costly system, it will help open up the world of learning to everyone who wants to learn—and also to contribute to learning, because the Office for Scholarly Communication could point the way toward a digital commonwealth, in which ideas would flow freely in all directions. Harvard’s motion represents only one step toward this goal. But it shows how the new technology can make it possible to realize an old ideal, a republic of letters in which citizenship extends to everyone. Robert Darnton...