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There are more opportunities to have fun at Harvard than at many other colleges. On campus, student groups compete to draw crowds to their events each week. Between the bulletin boards around campus, the house-open lists, the Institute of Politics events lists, and the athletic-events calendar, students can find some interesting social activity almost every night of the week. Furthermore, the House system allows dorm room parties and social gatherings in ways that many other colleges do not. And, off campus, there are eight major universities, a lively bar, and music scene, as well as a city full...
...this is not new. For every Franklin or Jefferson cited by Bollard, there were a dozen men like Dan Sickles, who seduced the Queen of Spain, or Robert Schenck, who as Minister to the Court of St. James taught the British to play draw poker and then cheated them out of millions. All were political figures, not professional diplomats. The U.S. did not have a professional diplomatic corps until the early 20th century. Many Americans remain ambivalent about it, in contrast to other professions like the military. It is hard to imagine the American people tolerating a high number...
...were on a gender-blind basis,” said Goldin. The reason for this is that the most dominant female-to-male ratios occur among lower socioeconomic status families, while the ratio among wealthier families is more balanced. Katz said that “since Harvard tends to draw from the higher part of the [socioeconomic status] and high school performance distribution [this] would mean even with gender-blind admissions policies that Harvard would tend to have a lower female share than a typical elite school.” While a large gender gap has not yet arrived...
...less—and this type of success must necessarily be yoked to a high level of scrutiny, lest we cheapen true achievement. But treating Viswanathan with the same lack of judiciousness with which she herself treated McCafferty sinks this affair to a new low.Some have also chosen to draw broader conclusions from this situation by linking it to the dog-eat-dog, rat-racing, ladder-climbing, and corner-cutting mentality of Harvard students. Others have related it to the stressful nature of college admissions, and still others have blamed a cocktail of overzealous parents and intense pressure. But such...
From St. Louis, Missouri, JASMINE B. WOODARD ’09 lives in Weld. She likes to shop in Boston, read magazines, draw, and go out to parties. Jessica is involved in the Women’s Leadership Network and the Association of Black Harvard Women, and over the summer she plans to work in Princeton with Junior State of America, or at a non-profit in Chicago. She can do without the cold at Harvard, but she loves the people...