Word: scholaritis
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...Meanwhile, pro-Foster professors are asking the College to take concrete steps toward keeping the folklore scholar on board...
...essentially a Harvard lifer,” said his son Peter A. von Mehren ’77. “He arrived at Harvard in 1939 when he was 17 years old and spent the rest of his life there. He devoted his entire life to being a scholar in the Harvard community.” Von Mehren grew up in Minneapolis during the Depression. He and his twin brother Robert became local legends when one was accepted to Harvard and the other to Yale. After graduating from Harvard College in 1942, von Mehren went on to place first...
...Homestar Runner to the Numa Numa dance and beyond, might be unfazed if they heard the Internet characterized as a “dumb” network. The rest of us, though, we discriminating readers of the online edition of The Crimson, we Wikipedians and fans of Google Scholar, might take a bit of offense at such nomenclature.It should come as something of a surprise, then, that creating a dumb network was among the loftiest goals of the founding fathers of the Internet. What they meant by “dumb” is that the network itself?...
Just 12 years after graduating from the College, the careful, if young, scholar of the presidential power became, as one of his former supervisors told the Times, “the go-to guy on foreign affairs and military power issues” for the Bush administration...
...could have been so different. Dayan Jayatilleka, a former visiting scholar of South Asia Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C., says he was amazed in the days after the tsunami to see soldiers donate blood for Tamils. "I thought, 'My God. There is hope. Underneath all this hate and suspicion, there is a humanity to us.' It was a magical moment. Then it was gone...