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...assignment took him into the heart of central Africa, where he tracked down some of the surviving porters of the famed nineteenth-century explorer Henry Stanley, who had himself tracked down Dr. David Livingstone...
...Nineteenth century psychiatrists coined a term for the irresistible impulse to swipe: they called it kleptomania, from the Greek kleptein, to steal. It was applied after the fact to Jane Austen's aunt, who was tried in 1800 for pocketing fancy white lace. By the 1920s Freudian psychologists, always attuned to underlying sexual drives, were comparing the rush from a successful filch to the pleasure of an orgasm. Experts today are more inclined to compare recreational larceny to thrill-seeking behaviors like bungee jumping or to addictions like drug abuse or compulsive gambling...
...history of previous curricular reforms establishes a strong precedent of true innovation. In the late nineteenth century, for instance, President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, broke new ground instituting the elective system. As World War II came to an end, President James B. Conant ’14 oversaw the production of Education in a Free Society, the famous “Red Book” which formed the intellectual underpinnings of the modern American liberal arts curriculum. In the most recent curricular review, Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky renewed the focus on undergraduate education by exposing...
Avid readers of The New York Times looking to catch up on all the news that was fit to print in 1851 will have their hands full, now that Harvard’s online resources include articles from as far back as the nineteenth century...
When juries usurp the role of the legislature by deciding the wisdom of a law, there can be terrible consequences—exemplified by the refusal of some Southern juries to convict defendants for lynching blacks in the late nineteenth century. Jury nullification undermines the fairness of the legal system by making the enforcement of what should be a uniform standard of conduct dependent only on the opinion of a 12-member jury—without any accountability to the citizenry at large. South Dakota’s proposed Amendment A circumvents the democratic judicial process, and should be voted...