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...another facet of the University’s emissions-reducing program, Gogan said that Harvard has entered into a competition to see which campus can recycle the most waste at a home football game...

Author: By Carola A. Cintron-arroyo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Solar Trashbins Join Green Push | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Rhetoric, one of the three ancient arts of discourse, harkens back to the Greeks—beginning with the fifth century B.C.E. Sophists, or even earlier. Long ago, thinkers highly valued verbal persuasion and deemed it a central facet of education. The field of rhetoric changed and developed during Roman rule and onward, until Harvard itself established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1806. It was Francis J. Child, the second professor to hold the position, who shifted the job once and for all toward literature and away from public speaking. Now, Harvard’s commitment...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Speak Your Mind | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...limited and comparing available plans - in the event that more than one exists - is nearly impossible. That problem is at the root of much of what health-care reform is supposed to change, and one of the primary weapons intended to do that is a poorly understood, often overlooked facet of the various proposals that is dubbed the health-insurance exchange. (Read "Howard Dean on the Politics of Health-Care Reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Health-Insurance Exchanges | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...been called the jewel of Harvard College, an arrangement of inter-generational residential living that has been a facet of the undergraduate experience since the 1930s. The College’s House system—a set of 12 residences spanning Dewolfe to Garden Streets, and potentially the Charles River into neighboring Allston one day—are a hub of both academic and social activity. Tenured faculty sit at the helm, supported by contingents of alumni and affiliates from varying generations and trades, all intermingling with a few hundred undergraduates...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: House Life Faces Uncertainty | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...every few years. In the world of research, in short, there exist devices for reshuffling faculty. The time has come to bring this same philosophy to the world of teaching. Obviously, there has to be a certain amount of continuity in our courses and curricula. But not every facet of the curriculum has to be imagined as permanent. For example, why not create a rolling series of secondary fields each with built-in sunset clauses, lasting no more than three or four years? These fields could be organized around a set of innovative, one-time-only freshmen seminars...

Author: By Daniel L. Smail | Title: Shuffling the Deck | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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