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...Harvard classes?” “Harvard graduates.” The old jokes are, if not the best, than certainly the most comforting. However, even the most cursory glance at the Harvard student body would tip off the casual observer that most undergraduates are unable to grasp that simple premise. In spite of the furor over falling numbers at last week’s Phillips Brooks House Association First-Year Day of Service—where 25 students participated, compared to more than 300 eager volunteers the previous year—the problem at Harvard remains...
...seems to me that in this free society, we should want to teach young minds how to learn, but also to inspire their souls to grasp and to sustain the best humane ideals that our shared heritage has given us,” Lewis said...
...Anthony Appiah, Rockefeller university professor of philosophy at Princeton. He is the former Carswell professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy at Harvard. I guess I wish I knew more about contemporary genetics. I’d like to have some grasp of string theory, which I don’t think I do. Also, I would love to know more languages. I know one dead language and one living language, but I don’t understand Spanish, Chinese, Urdu. There is supposed to be some wonderful poetry in Urdu, and you can’t really tell...
After both the block and the QB sneak, Morris’ genuine exuberance was evident as he danced, arms flailing in the air, among his game-weary teammates. The tide had turned and Harvard’s tenth win in a row was within its grasp. His mega-watt smile was wide enough to be seen, through his facemask, from the press box atop the Stadium...
...seen in the cold war. The Soviet Union's ideology had many adherents and apologists throughout the West. For leaders in the developing world--where the Soviet Union was extending its power as late as the 1980s--Moscow was associated with progress and an escape from the thieving grasp of colonialism. Above all, communism was militarily powerful; the Soviet Union had thousands of weapons of mass destruction aimed right at us, and in Vietnam communist forces defeated the U.S. and its local allies...