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Take a common problem for most Harvard students: procrastination. Led by the words of our anonymous philosopher, students consciously or not ensure that a five-page paper requiring two hours of focused work engulfs the entire day.
The fox knows many things," wrote the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, "but the hedgehog knows one big thing." In his famous 1953 essay, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin used that conceit to divide Russian writers into hedgehogs and foxes. Hedgehogs, he suggested, are individuals who relate everything to a single...
But last spring, a few of the club's remaining members, including current club President Joseph C. Anderson '99, sought information from the Ayn Rand Foundation about the philosopher's work.
Want to be the next Bill Gates? The Entrepreneur's Club is for you. Want to be a popular philosopher? Try the Objectivists Club.
Among this year's fellows is philosopher Wande Abimbola, the former Majority Leader in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife.