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...apart - ask any parent of one. But as a driver of culture, as a consumer niche, as a state of contrariness, the subspecies known as teenager wasn't even identified until World War II, the point at which British music writer Jon Savage's fascinating new book, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, ends. His 576-page trawl through the social commentary, memoirs and reportage of Europe and the U.S. in those decades shows how all the indicators of modern youth culture - the generational antagonism, the moral panics, the idealism, the shocking dress sense - were in place long...
...Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species and make it universally accessible free of charge, according to Laura Cinnamon, a spokeswoman for the project. Harvard has already promised over $5 million, which will go towards education, outreach, and the creation of a digital anthology of taxonomic literature, said James Hanken, a Harvard professor of biology and a member of the EOL Steering Committee. James L. Edwards, executive director for the EOL starting June 1, said the Encyclopedia plans to “go live” in the second quarter...
...Movie Nights once did; and while “Pimp Yo’ Stein Club” was fun, the CEB was not created to supplant House Committees. Using the CEB’s money to hold small scale or House-based events does nothing to further the creation of Harvard undergraduate identity. The lack of an undergraduate identity ranks as one of the biggest problems that Harvard College faces today, and campus-wide events directly help combat this problem. At Harvard-Yale, the year’s biggest campus-wide event, we students bring out our Harvard sweatshirts...
...Board, she portrayed the ongoing conflict as one that “has been left to fester for far too long.” “The gulf between narratives is wide, and only getting wider,” she said. Jordan has expressed its support for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, as well as for achieving peace in the Middle East. The queen also addressed the evolving role of women in the Arab world in response to a question posed by Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75. “The Arab...
Last year, the College began to implement its new life sciences curriculum. The first step was the creation of Life Sciences 1a and 1b as introductory courses into any Life Sciences track. The result was predictable. Life Science 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution” received a CUE score on average one point lower than other natural science courses with a quarter of its veterans recommending for people to not take the course...