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Although it could not seem more unlikely today, Harvard and MIT were once very nearly a single school. Claiming that it was unreasonable for two highly similar institutions, MIT and Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School, to exist in such a small area, then-University President Charles W. Eliot and MIT President Henry S. Pritchett undertook a highly controversial campaign from 1904 to 1905 to integrate...
...with the proposed MIT merger, the plan has drawn its share of criticism, largely from those who argue that a technological school and a liberal arts education are mutually incompatible. But unlike Eliot and Pritchett, today’s faculty and administrators feel they have the opportunity—and the obligation—to prove those critics wrong...
...Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers, who spoke at last weekend’s symposium, said he believed that “the lack of diverse perspective” is a serious problem because it denies progressives the opportunity to “sharpen and develop their arguments...
About ten minutes in, a few students wearing Eliot House T-shirts snuck into the room and asked, “Did someone here order thirty delicious sexual pies?” before dropping off three fruit pies with Biggs...
...video games has come a barrage of legislation targeted at keeping games like “Halo 3” out of the hands of impressionable youngsters. At the end of August several politicians spoke out about halting the sale of ultra-violent video games to minors. Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY) even claims that legislating against video games is a top priority for his state.In arguing their case, most proponents of a ban on violent games draw parallels with pornography and sexually violent images. Supposedly, too much gaming persuades more kids to go on killing sprees. State Senator Leland...