Word: learnedness
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Chances are that if you’re reading this in print, you grew up on newspapers. Research suggests that our news media preferences have been established by the time we reach the age of 30. You’re also a dying breed—by 2010, only 9...
The year was 1641. Harvard College, a cash-poor five-year-old institution of higher learning, sent three Cambridge, Mass., preachers to England on a “begging mission.”When the pioneering preachers arrived, they realized what is now a precept of fundraising: they needed some...
“You are here to work, and your business here is learning.” It was with these words that outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby welcomed us, as freshmen, into Harvard’s folds. This ethic of productive and studious endeavor has been...
Elena’s older brother, for instance, was accepted to some of the nation’s most competitive schools. But unlike Harvard, several of the universities to which he had been admitted rescinded their offers of financial aid after they learned he was an undocumented immigrant.
The nuclear fears of my graduating class were never, thankfully, borne out. Instead we have lived to see arguments we thought were well-settled reopened, and lessons we thought were well-learned ignored, by leaders whose careers we thought were well-buried. (Didn’t Dick Cheney and Donald...