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...this context, the community backlash is particularly surprising. Our best guess is that it was caused by miscommunication. We are, however, optimistic about the future, as both Harvard and the community seem to have recommitted themselves to finding a mutual understanding in the wake of the recent disagreements...
...homeschooled children attend religious services, according to a 2004 article by Ray published in the “Journal of College Admission.”While Carla Jentoft admits that she and her husband used homeschooling to address their beliefs with the family, these conversations took place in the context of relevant historical study. “We had a lot of dinner conversations and we would discuss them,” she says. Her voice rises to a playful falsetto, “The Civil War, is it Christian or not? And the War of Independence, was it right...
...served as “an ambassador for fine literature” at Harvard. Even though the poet was not a professor of literature, he “transformed the educational culture that surrounded foreign subjects” and cut a path for the study of texts within the context of other cultures. Longfellow resided at the famous Craigie House, which had been used as headquarters by George Washington during the Revolutionary War. The house was the meeting place of the Saturday Club, a literary salon including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, James Russell Lowell, Class...
...volunteering without a full understanding of the community in which the work is taking place. “It’s not as productive if people just volunteer,” Khazei said. “You’ve got to take the time to understand the context [of the community].” Khazei described himself as a “rugged idealist,” citing that quality as a primary reason behind the creation of City Year. Along with college roommate Michael H. Brown ’83, Khazei founded the organization...
...SECRETS AND LIES “Secrecy” was made by Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking Robb Moss and Pellegrino University Professor Peter L. Galison. It explores government secrets—not with the aim of exposing them but of giving an outline to their nebulous nature in the context of democracy and its sustainability. Though at the screening Galison jokingly called the film an “impossible project” due to the impenetrability of secrets, Moss said the intent was to add a third dimension to secrecy’s “two-dimensional world?...