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Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, a Council member, said that “misunderstandings might occur” with changes to the wording of the diploma...
...Such stories mark a broader trend of ambassadors appointed for patronage, not skills. From the Floridian property developer serving as Ambassador to Portugal to the Ohio industrialist turned Ambassador to Germany—who apparently compensated for his lack of German language skills with a $561,995 donation to the GOP—experience is no longer a prerequisite for appointment. Instead, fundraising, campaigning, and lobbying ability at home now determine who will represent America in foreign lands...
...evening, will stand in sharp relief from the powerful and sometimes bombastic Russian masters featured by the Philharmonic. The Chamber Music Society will play an arrangement of Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer”—actually a common mistranslation of the German, it is really closer to “Songs of a Traveling Journeyman”—a tender and anguished piece, as well as Schubert’s masterful Octet, a truly epic work whose six movements are modeled after the classical Divertimento. During the compositional process, Schubert...
...HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, they will follow in the footsteps of their predecessors who sponsored refugees from Nazi Germany to complete an undergraduate education. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 63rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when captive Jews in Poland’s capital attempted a revolt. As German forces marched through Europe and then attempted to exterminate the continent’s Jews, student pressure here at Harvard eventually caused the University to sponsor the full undergraduate educations of 14 refugees by 1944. Rahel Kestenberg, who fled from Prague, was the first Jewish refugee to enroll in Radcliffe...
...their plans of study in early May. That may not be possible, however, because requirements for the new concentrations have not been finalized. Earlier in the meeting, the committee discussed measures to ensure students remain anonymous in the CUE evaluation process. Judith L. Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, said that, in general, professors do not try to match a student with a CUE evaluation. However, sometimes professors do know which student has filled out an evaluation. Members of the committee spoke favorably about a plan to hide demographic information that students volunteer from the professors...