Word: dispersedness
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One of the Founding Fathers was almost killed in a riot over research. Medical students learn anatomy from cadavers, and in the past they got them on the sly, digging up fresh graves. In April 1788 a student at a New York City hospital jokingly told a boy that he...
In a new biography, University of London professor Lucy Riall explores how the Italian's legend spread across the globe. Though there was no YouTube to carry his impassioned orations, Garibaldi did have the fortune to emerge during an information revolution. With the advent of new mass-printing technologies, accounts...
The smackdown took place at an ordinary watering hole where a small herd of cape buffalo were drinking and idling, wandering dangerously close to a pack of concealed lions that either did not smell very lion-like or, more probably, were crouching deliberately upwind. On the other side of the...
Our challenge is to realize the full potential of these opportunities, to bring together a geographically dispersed faculty in one location to serve the future institutional needs of the School and the educational needs of its students. The Allston Master Plan filed with the City of Boston includes the Harvard...
Whether or not it did in fact advance beyond the effectiveness threshold of a planned economy, the Fainsod system—with its myriad dispersed committees—seems to have created confusion for students seeking a direct avenue to gather and voice a collective opinion. Looking for a more...