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...Here at Harvard, William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies Marjorie Garber is currently teaching “The Visual Animal”—a graduate seminar designing the General Education course on animals in literature, art, and popular culture to be offered next year. And Associate Professor of the History of Science Sarah Jansen launched a class on the history of dogs this semester...
...very popular hypothesis, he said, is that professors at large research Universities—career academics whose children tend to be more likely to pursue their own Ph.D.s—are inclined to send their offspring to smaller schools, where they know they will be able to get attention from faculty. For his part, James H. Stock, chair of the Harvard economics department, cited the College’s attempt to provide personal advice and individualized counseling as a reason for the large number of eventual economics doctorates...
...likely based on an innate love of algebra, it is possible that this interest was also motivated by a somewhat diminished temptation for the frolics of youth. A highly scientific straw poll of the first 20 people I recognized in Quincy revealed that only four felt they were popular at the age of 12 to 14; past social reclusion is not a universalistic trend, but it does seem to be prevalent...
...problem? Well, for one thing, Harvard students are unhappy. Student satisfaction ranks near the bottom of a group of elite colleges, and a lack of social life is identified as one of the major problems. A close friend—atypical at Harvard in that she has always been popular and is thus possibly more affected by the lack of social interactions—recently told me that she viewed her university experience as a reason to “be strong and just get through time...
...also can't comfort Republicans that Obama's approval ratings remain high. The President was so popular during the first month of his Administration that the GOP didn't directly criticize him, saving their fire for the softer targets of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. (See who's who in Obama's White House...