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...reorganization of undergraduate education is now developed, it will have to be carried forward by a College staff disillusioned and unhappy about the sudden departure of the chief who brought them on board, and whose sense of mission about the College has always been contagious. Harvard College is a poorer place for Dean Lewis’ departure, and doubly poor for the way in which that departure has been brought about...
...reorganization of undergraduate education is now developed, it will have to be carried forward by a College staff disillusioned and unhappy about the sudden departure of the chief who brought them on board, and whose sense of mission about the College has always been contagious. Harvard College is a poorer place for Dean Lewis’ departure, and doubly poor for the way in which that departure has been brought about...
...from India destined for the South China coast and a reproduction of a typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size diorama, entered through an innocuous-looking tea shop. The poorer users could choose doses of low-grade opium self-administered in spartan surroundings. Better-heeled junkies could smoke pipes of pure opium prepared by servants in opulently furnished rooms. Lest visitors get carried away amid their reveries, the curators have mounted cautionary tributes to entertainers who overdosed, such as River...
Neither Harvard’s alumni records office nor the Harvard International Office compiles statistics on where international students wind up after they graduate. But international students and professors say that, on the whole, students from richer countries are more likely to return home than those from poorer, less stable countries—which means that the nations which can benefit the most from Harvard graduates receive the fewest...
...lure of the American Dream doesn’t just apply to students from poorer nations. It also applies to countries that, from a cultural standpoint, arguably count as international in cartographic terms only. Namely, Canada. According to Prichard, Canadians in particular are drawn en masse to their larger, culturally dominant neighbor. “Most Canadians get pushed to stay here because of job options,” he says, citing high school classmates that came to Harvard as an example. “I think it’s really sad that a lot of international students stay...