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...Courses of Instruction: 810 pages. This catalog is the Harvard student's sacred text and deserves a cover-to-cover read. Harvard offers a class that fills virtually every possible intellectual niche. After a high school spent regurgitating force-fed facts, a little freedom feels good...
Courses of Instruction: 810 pages. This catalog is the Harvard student's sacred text and deserves a cover-to-cover read. Harvard offers a class that fills virtually every possible intellectual niche. After a high school spent regurgitating force-fed facts, a little freedom feels good...
...improved territorial play paid off just 37 seconds into the final quarter. Watson fed DeVries right in front of the goal and the junior beat Corey Popham to bring Harvard to within five...
...bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, collecting and lending the gold Washington needed to keep paying its bills. He stopped the panic of 1907 by raising the funds to keep tottering banks afloat, in effect acting as a one-man Federal Reserve System six years before the real Fed was created. He made plenty of money for himself in the process, of course, but not quite as much as popular myth would suggest. The estate he left in 1913, including his gargantuan art collection, was valued at $80 million, around a tenth of Andrew Carnegie's wealth...
...Southern plantation owners and gentleman farmers, enslaved Africans were simply investments. Ledgers and diaries from their estate archives documented who had to be fed, housed and rationed clothing, blankets and utensils: "Essie" received a pot, ladle and blankets for her child, and "Mose" was hired out to a neighboring farm...