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...early 20th century, have served the nation well until recently. It is that original approach of balanced use of public land—rather than a complete protectionist policy, as some environmentalists advocate—that America must return to.Bush’s ideology bears only the most distant relationship to the original Republican environmental ethos—the conservationism of Gifford Pinchot, a turn-of-the-century Republican who served as the head of the National Forestry Service and founded the Yale School of Forestry. Pinchot took a utilitarian stance: Not strictly opposed to development of wild lands...
Before you know it, Camp Harvard will be a distant memory and exam time will be upon us. For the unseasoned student, this means going through your syllabi, figuring out which books you need to read, and releasing them from the plastic wrap that has been covering them since September. For the efficient (read: lazy and smart) student, it means that it’s time to email those people you kind of know from section and start a “study group.” Don’t expect to actually study together, however, for study groups...
...requirements, they fear students won’t turn up for their antiquarian history classes. The Core currently forces much of the student body to be exposed to classical, medieval, and early modern history, while new distribution requirements would almost assuredly make it easier for students to escape the distant past, if not the study of history entirely.The declared intent of Historical Studies B is to acquaint non-concentrators with the methodology of the historian by exploring a completed historical event. While the definition of “completed” and its implications for the time period studied...
...doubt, many students at Harvard have chosen to engage. Hundreds protested the invasion of Iraq in 2003, because the lives of thousands of Iraqis and young Americans were worth it to them. Some hurled themselves into election campaigns. Others campaigned to call attention to genocide in distant Darfur or to confront injustices closer to home...
...expect in the not-too-distant future that we’ll have an even better measurement...