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...gather for the annual ritual of conferring degrees, it seems appropriate to reflect on what we are really conferring. The answer is simple—Harvard diplomas—but explaining what it represents is not so simple...
...Oddly, that is probably the key to a Harvard education. Somehow we collectively manage to provide just the right learning environment for our students to develop inquiring minds. And so the degrees that are conferred today do not so much reflect the answers that our students have given, but the questions they have asked...
...Studies of its dubiously warranted prestige and image as an intellectual haven within the College—something that Social Studies is loathe to do. When questioned about Social Studies’ relation to other concentrations, Bernstein reiterated the difficulty of the concentration and the need for students to reflect on what they are committing to. Tuck said, “I think Social Studies’ reputation is good for the concentration—that kind of self-confidence is good for work. People want to be a part of an interesting group...
...among her friends, will travel to Cambodia next year under the George Peabody Gardner fellowship. Her tentative plans involve working for a non-profit to provide urban women the “entrepreneurial tools” to market the silk-weaving they produce, Leng says. Her post-graduate goals reflect two interests deepened at Harvard: her Cambodian heritage and public service. Leng, whose family—parents and 40 relatives—moved to Massachusetts a year before she was born, says that her parents’ Cambodian culture remained a significant part of their lives, even in the States...
...time since, I’ve had more than a week to reflect on what I’ve actually learned in my four years at Harvard College. I must confess I’m more than a little disappointed...