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Whinston's focus is more theoretical, according to Caves, who signed the letter and termed Whinston "a leading scholar...
...these activities. A well-presented lecture or set of lectures by someone who has thought deeply and in an original way about his or her subject can be invaluable as a guide and stimulus to reading and reflection; it can serve as a model of how an artist, scholar, or scientist approaches his or her work; and it can communicate insights that would otherwise be hard to come by. But the cultivation of basic intellectual skills and habits requires a different setting. In concentrations, this setting has usually been the tutorial. In Core courses outside the arts it could...
...awarded the National Medal of Arts by former President Ronald Reagan. Freedberg is the only scholar to have ever received the accolade...
...their letter, the faculty members criticized the administration's failure to tenure an "excellent" scholar and questioned Rudenstine's commitment to diversity for women...
Simply put, Harvard should do everything in its power to woo top female candidates to join the faculty. Boasting unrivaled intellectual resources, an eight billion dollar endowment and an attractive Cambridge locale, Harvard has many tools at its disposal for attracting the world's leading scholars. And one of those tools is money. If a woman is the top candidate in a department's search, the size of the tenuring package should not be an object in bringing her here; Harvard should be willing to beat all competing offers, and beat them substantially when it is thought that this might...