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...early 1960s, a Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel began a series of famous experiments with snacks and kids. Mischel told his subjects they could have one little treat now or two if they waited awhile. The results varied widely. As Mischel and co-author Ozlem Ayduk note in their chapter of 2004's Handbook of Self-Regulation, the definitive psychology text on willpower, the very idea of delayed gratification baffled kids under 4. But nearly 60% of 12-year-olds were able to wait the full 25 minutes until Mischel returned with the two promised sweets...
...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 percent of Americans in their 20s will read the paper on a daily basis. Social scientists note that the decline in readership is part of a larger move towards political inattentiveness among younger Americans. Barely a third of the “DotNet” generation (current 15- to 25-year olds) follows the news on a regular basis. As these are the formative years for media...
...search is underway.Whether the committee members take the advice or not, they are poised to have great influence over Harvard’s future path.‘THE BOSTON PHONE BOOK’Students, faculty, and staff opened their e-mail inboxes in mid-April to find a note from Houghton soliciting their advice on the search. Hard copies of the letter were mailed to about 320,000 alumni.In response, eager friends of the University have submitted an enormous list of potential candidates—“the size of the Boston phone book,” says...
...when in 1954 Board members complained to Conant’s successor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, that the Overseers had been marginalized in important governance decisions and appointments, Pusey responded that he would informally seek their advice in the future. But, as Morton and Phyllis Keller note in “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” “little appeared to change...
...Derek C. Bok’s presidency, which began in 1971, would bring significant changes to the fellows’ workload. “As both Harvard and its bureaucracy grew,” the Kellers note, “the Corporation became more detached from the mundane realities of University governance...