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...honorees had the opportunity to share stories of their background and experiences at Harvard as well. Carrington provided insight into the housing situation in 1948, when the four were freshmen. Black students were invariably paired with each other for rooming. Carrington and Harkless were assigned to Hollis Hall, and Hughes and Simmons roomed in Stoughton Hall, while the four Chinese students in the class were fully integrated with white students, according to Carrington. He added that he had not faced “real discrimination” until he came to Harvard...
...Stadium.Technically, the second-team White squad “defeated” the first-team Crimson 21-13, but the revamped format this year actually saw all the offensive players don road white jerseys while the defense wore home Crimson. While the score mattered little, the game offered important insight into some of Harvard’s early question marks—including an offensive line which is graduating five seniors.“It got ugly a little bit today, it really did,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said, referring to an offense that was penalized...
...requests from departments for evaluations of tenure candidates compared to five or six other scholars in a cohort spanning 10 to 15 years. The internal and external reviews inform each other. “They look at nominally the same thing, but the outside letters have less insight into teaching, advising, and internal service,” says Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Chair Cynthia Friend, who chaired a 2003 committee that reviewed faculty appointment processes.INSIDE THE BOARDROOMEach Wednesday, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby sits down with the academic deans to review dossiers.The meeting...
...this event.” The Harvard Crimson: Why did you choose to focus on Flight 93, as opposed to the towers or the Pentagon? Paul Greengass: I always wanted the film to be a chronology for 9/11 so that when you sit through this film, you feel insight into the totality of the event. That’s why we’re in the air traffic system and the merchant control systems so that you can see it at eye level and...how, like us, they were blind...and struggled to grasp what was going on. Once...
...most accessible, songs like “All Goes Out the Window” and “Never Went to Church” are either offerings to the less adventurous of his listeners, or minor failures. Ever an intriguing combination of brazen bollocks jokes and swings at cultural insight, it can be hard to tell where Skinner is aiming his punches at times. Then again, albums with songs dedicated to themes as disparate as trashed hotel rooms and late fathers aren’t all that strange in the rap world. And besides, it’s hard...