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Academics, then, probably isn’t the common thread. Maybe there’s another unifying element to the Harvard experience. Yet the other list of possible candidates—athletics, extracurricular activities, and community involvement—are subject to even more division and are less likely to focus students around a common goal...
...this manner, collegiality and individuality exist in tension, for the truly sovereign student does not need the input of his fellow classmates. Harvard, as a result, will tolerate but remain uncomfortable with an approach that emphasizes interdepenence, since collaborative efforts have as their logical prerequisite a common understanding or goal. Prefrosh and students are alike in this respect in that however long students remain on campus, a community of learning never coalesces around a shared pursuit...
...Harvard approach to student life is motivated by a strong individualism that enervates attempts to establish a community, since the idea of community requires that each of us not make college life “whatever you choose it to be” and instead identify a common end as worth pursuing, whether that’s in or outside of the classroom. It’s for this reason that college undergraduates are no wiser than prefrosh—spending time here doesn’t really tell each individual what Harvard life is all about. Instead...
...Harvard has entered an agreement with the Egyptian government to provide need-based financial aid to Egyptian graduate students pursuing careers in public service, an initiative which is funding three masters students this year...
...agreement, signed in October 2009, supports Egyptian citizens living in Egypt who wish to pursue a masters degree at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Education, or the Harvard Design School; to attend executive education programs; or to take courses at the Harvard Summer School...