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...didn't finish his undergraduate degree. He found a 1991 Boston Globe article, "Harvard Business School on a High School Diploma," that described cases of successful graduates who had been admitted without finishing college, and he won over admissions officials by outlining the earlier cases in an essay. "I researched not just the precedent but whether I'd be able to hack it and contribute to the classes," Gottesman says. "I talked to a bunch of alumni and current students and decided it was worth a shot." Gottesman scored in one of the top percentiles on his Graduate Management Admission...
...right direction. Today, we need to be integrating knowledge, not fragmenting it. Vartan Gregorian, the former president of Brown University, has termed the project “the reconstruction of the unity of knowledge” in a coruscating 2004 essay. He writes, “[T]he complexity of the world requires us to have a better understanding of the relationships and connections between all fields.” A society more fragmented than today’s, Gregorian argues, has more of a dependence on experts and more of a temptation to eschew judgment in favor of accepted...
...same essay, Gregorian had noted how a society that catered to a fragmented vision of knowledge was one that would perpetually crave wholeness. Last month, Harvard took a small step to becoming just such a place. At some point, it too shall crave wholeness...
...make a significant effort in their daily lives to bend U.S. foreign policy so that it advances Israel’s interests.”Their thesis was enthusiastically adopted by some embarrassing—and unwelcome—allies.One white supremacist organization, National Vanguard, reprinted excerpts from the essay and distributed them on the University’s campus along with a flyer proclaiming the dangers of interracial sex. There were also aspersions cast on the information presented in the article.For instance, Walt and Mearsheimer characterize Israeli citizenship as a “blood kinship...
...most precious possession I lugged to the Yard in September 1977 was a burnt-orange Smith Corona electric typewriter. With its snap-in, snap-out ribbon enabling quickie corrections, it represented advanced technology for its day. It would serve me trustily from my first freshman Expos essay to the last page of my senior thesis. Compared to the battered old black Royal manuals in the Crimson newsroom that became my home, it was a writer?...