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However, one interesting aspect of parties hosted by professors is the degree to which some professors are sensitive to the need to keep their parties private. Generally, there are two types of parties hosted by Harvard’s professional academic elite??those sponsored by the academic departments and those that remain a facet of the professor’s personal life. Parties such as Travers’ brunch and Mansfield’s receptions are excellent examples of parties of the first order. However, for those who organize more private—and many times more alcoholic...
...that many people from other cultures have indeed contributed to the world of mathematics and physics: C.N. Yang, whose work with fundamental particles have formed the basis for the now widely-agreed upon Standard Model of physics, was Chinese. Weinberg demonstrates that there is no “elite?? clique of head scientists by illustrating the lengthy process and mounds of evidence that changed his own view on the correctness of that Standard Model. He debunks claims that science changes with time and culture, arguing that the physics of today is the same physics of Maxwell or Einstein...
Harvard’s interest in the King boats, designed by former Harvard boatman Graeme King and produced by the fledging company Elite Boatworks, peaked when Jim Crick ’88, President of Elite Boatworks and former Harvard rower, brought Elite??s fifth boat to Cambridge...
...Crimson had been rowing in a Resolute boat up until the weekend before the Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s National Championship. Harvard tried rowing Elite??s King for four days, including a practice during which the Resolute was taken out for comparison...
...News, April 4), I was amused to notice that The Crimson has continued its long-standing love affair with Harvard’s selective admissions record. I’ve read countless Crimson articles during my three years here smugly alluding Harvard’s “elite?? status and its place as the “top university” in the nation, whatever that means. And now an article about admissions, focusing on rejection letters and containing the internal headline “Harvard Rejects More Applicants Than Ever Before.” Give...