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Every once in a while I feel obliged to do my alma mater Fair Harvard a favor by showing the world that not everyone here is morally naïve and politically correct. I am grateful to The Crimson for providing the opportunity and wish only that Harvard’s faculty and administration were as diverse politically...
...Year.In 1992 she began touring as band leader with pop-folk artist Michelle Shocked, and in 1995 she launched her own record label, Compass Records, with her husband bassist Gary West.Brown recalls that the process of starting her own label brought her back to the gates of her alma mater. She remembers picking up Harvard Magazine in the Charles Hotel and learning that Melissa J. Block ’83 was working at National Public Radio. Block set up an interview with Brown on her radio show “All Things Considered.”Later, Brown...
...Harvard College Program in Cuba is a key component of the initiative to strengthen ties between Harvard and Cuba. Since 2006, Harvard has been able to send a select group of students to study abroad for one semester at the University of Havana, Castro’s alma mater. Harvard students who go to Cuba must be juniors at the time and must have had at least six semesters of Spanish language training. These students are able to travel where few Americans have gone because of an institutionalized license granted by the U.S. Treasury Department. It took 18 months...
Throughout his long life, Gordon continued to give back to his alma mater...
...Harvard diploma is a prudent investment or a flagrant rip-off remains unresolved. Frustrated investment bankers need not despair—Harvard students enjoy significantly higher earnings than their peers—but the jury is still out on whether we can attribute these high earnings to our alma mater or simply to ourselves. Although Harvard’s educational program makes an ambiguous contribution to the future net worth of its students, a Harvard degree remains a strong predictor of high earnings later in life—yet it cannot guarantee success. Attempts to place a dollar amount...