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...prove her fealty to this university once and for all, by resigning the presidency. Harvard’s trustees should waste no time in confirming her heir apparent: the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC).Any doubts as to the UC’s competence to hold Harvard’s highest office have surely been quashed this week, during its teapot-bound war of attrition with administrators over the UC’s almost-legal practice of paying for underage students’ booze with money funneled to its bank account by the College. UC leaders have seized the opportunity...
...Harvard is not required to do any of these things, nor is it required to be a diverse place that highlights the Pan-African dance troupe or elects a woman to its highest office. In the not-too-distant past, neither of these events would have happened; it took the institution’s human side—the strength of its community members’ moral convictions—to push it toward the image of Harvard that will be on full view today in Tercentenary Theatre...
...think that this building is a big challenge and how it is used and what the highest and most exciting use will be is the one we haven’t thought...
...turn of the 18th century, history painting was the highest purpose art could serve, and Turner would attempt those heights all his life. But his real achievement would be to make landscape the equal of history painting. More than that, he made it a kind of history painting, in which nature operates as a surrogate for the force of events. In his thunderous Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, it's not even clear just where Turner has placed the Carthaginian general. Could he be that minuscule silhouette in the middle distance on a tiny elephant...
...highest court in Massachusetts handed a Harvard medical student victory late Tuesday in her battle for extra break time to pump breast milk during a medial certification exam. The state Supreme Judicial Court’s decision came the night before Sophie C. Currier, an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School, began taking the test and ensured she would receive one hour of additional break time per day on top of the 45 minutes students typically have for the entire exam. Currier cannot graduate from the Medical School or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the eight-hour...