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...liberal education would draw Harvard’s academics out in droves. Yet anemic attendance at Faculty meetings—when the Faculty bothered to have them at all—served as depressing indicators of Faculty apathy. Unsurprisingly, the Curricular Review largely fell flat. Instead of crafting a meaningful statement on what it means to be educated in today’s world, professors only seemed to care that their parochial corner of academia be included, leaving Harvard with an uninspired retread of the Core Curriculum. It will be up to Smith and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies...
The late Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that the meaning of a word was derived from the way it is used in language. Not according to McDonald's. The fast-food giant is currently lobbying dictionary publishers to change the meaning of the word McJob - or remove it altogether...
First used some 20 years ago in the United States to describe low-paying, low-skill jobs that offered little prospect of advancement, the term McJob was popularized by the author Douglas Coupland in his 1991 slacker ode Generation X, which chronicled the efforts of a "lost" generation of twenty...
As I look out these gates, I do so with a new set of lessons and answers from my quest at Harvard in mind. Though I have attended a prestigious institution, I no longer feel that “doing well” necessarily means continuing on to something that...
Early admissions programs, whereby a student applies in November and receives a decision in December, unfairly advantage the already advantaged. The early applicant pool is traditionally admitted at around twice the rate of the regular pool—meaning that Harvard’s already intimidating admissions statistics look even...