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...Medial School (HMS) alumnus, died unexpectedly April 3, as the result of a construction accident that killed two others as well. Ty, 28, was driving down Boylston Street when a 10-ton lift platform crashed down on his car. The construction accident also killed two workers who were building Emerson College’s new Piano Row residence hall and student center. Ty graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University and received his MD in 2004 from HMS under the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Those who knew Ty considered him gifted not only...
...cedes that extracurriculars teach important skills, but worries that competition-driven undergrads are only adding to their résumés. For my part, I don’t think it’s competition that drives our extracurricular obsessions; I think it’s self-reliance. Emerson argues that we should be judged by the work we do. He warns us against impersonal, distant causes that drain the force from our lives and encourages us to devote ourselves instead to experiences in which we can best answer the call of our genius. For many students at Harvard...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. “We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the global community,” the weary president said in the waning days of the Second World War. “We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that ‘the only way to have a friend is to be one.’” The values of human equality and dignity that bind us to the rest of the world cannot be taught or presented in neat packages but must be learned...
...education the discovery of our own ignorance (Will Durant), the art of living an ethical life (Hegel), the ability to listen to almost anything without losing our tempers (Robert Frost), life itself (John Dewey), our best chance at happiness (Mark Van Doren), or the opening of doors (Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Emerson, to my mind, got it right. And when I read the January report on “Curricular Renewal in Harvard College,” I was reassured that we were also getting it right. After all, the report called for the creation of new courses in general education that would be “expansive in scope and integrative in approach.” The portal experience, it was emphasized, should be designed to “situate important texts, concepts, and discoveries in the context of larger problems and themes in ways that provide students with...