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...vital importance of providing history concentrators themselves with this basic knowledge the case is even more compelling. History 10a serves students in a way that narrowly focused history courses cannot. Despite the inclinations of some in the academy, there is merit to teaching courses that have not sprung forth from doctoral dissertations or that will not result in senior theses. Not every course must deeply probe narrow topics; sometimes the information—the facts themselves—can carry the day. Broad survey courses ask questions that help students connect the dots of otherwise loosely connected material. History...
...know where we are. We find ourselves in the locations of shape, form, knowledge, art,” says Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Tom Conley. Such creatively provocative statements characterize Conley’s artistic and critical method: he examines the world through unexpected lenses, bringing forth questions and meanings that might otherwise remain undiscovered. Born in New Haven, Conn., and raised by parents who did not attend college, Conley never expected to find himself at Harvard as a professor and co-master of Kirkland House. After studying at Lawrence and Columbia Universities, Conley?...
...ratings, it should be expected, not lauded. This is, of course, Harvard.Granted, the life of a Harvard athlete is indeed a hectic one. Few exceptions from coaches regarding schoolwork and even fewer from professors regarding athletics equal awfully busy days full studying, lifting, and trekking back and forth across the bridge to and from the athletic facilities. It’s a demanding existence, no doubt—but I would argue that the chances of a great payoff from the impending Harvard degree are much greater than any potential payoff of playing college sports...
...expected a better game,” Delaney-Smith said. At the game’s onset, Harvard matched the Big Green’s intensity, creating seven lead changes and three ties in the first half. The game would continue to go back and forth until Dartmouth mounted a 7-0 run in latter stages of the first half to pull away. The Big Green led the Crimson 30-26 at halftime. But when the two teams returned to the floor, only one seemed able to step up its game. “They...
Dealing a setback to his alma mater, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 rejected an argument put forth by 40 Harvard Law professors when he delivered the Supreme Court’s opinion in a major military recruitment case yesterday.In the first paragraph of his holding, Roberts singled out the Harvard professors’ brief and later wrote that the Harvard faculty members’ interpretation of the Solomon Amendment is “clearly not what Congress had in mind.”The Harvard professors had asked the court to avoid a constitutional showdown...