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Both concentrations have suffered from poor advising in the past: A 2001 survey of Harvard seniors showed that economics and government concentrators rated the quality of their departmental advising at 2.57 and 2.62, respectively, compared to the college average of a 3.19 on a five-point scale...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Advising Woes | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...this point, all options are open, and Harvard has not decided what type of relationship it seeks or whether co-development should even happen, University Executive Vice President Katherine N. Lapp says...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reimagining Allston | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...when I try to locate the exact moment when writing sports for The Crimson no longer had anything to do with sports, maybe I’m missing the point. Maybe it never happened...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: Sports Writer Learns Lessons on Writing, History, Friendship | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...word “empathy” was coined in the 20th century to describe our ability to feel our way into another’s point of view.  Smith called this ability “sympathy.” He saw every instance of sympathy as involving an implicit form of moral judgment. When empathetically engaging with the situation of others, we are led to imagine how we ourselves would react in their situation and don’t sympathize with reactions that are inappropriate. This is why sympathy can serve as the basis for our sense...

Author: By Michael L. Frazer | Title: Empathy, Obama, and Adam Smith | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...never written a book, I don’t have a 4.00, and I didn’t win a Hoopes prize junior year. I’ve never been invited to lecture on anything, anywhere, nor can I speak five languages. In fact, my grade point average is far from stellar, I can’t name an academic prize I was even considered for, and other than a few French phrases I pull out mostly for comedic value, I stick to my native tongue. Like I said, I’m no Wheeler. To be fair, though, neither...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill | Title: The Should-Haves | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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