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Committee members agree that Harvard must maintain its scholars?? abilities to pursue their academic work freely and publish their findings—in spite of the ambiguity of the government’s sensitive classification, Adelstein says...
Describing the University’s resistance to McCarthy-era investigations of its faculty members as “one of its proudest moments,” Summers said that while Harvard will not disobey any government mandates, it will do everything possible to ensure that its scholars?? intellectual liberties are not violated...
Four decades later, the arrival of “After the War/Before The Wall” at the Lincoln Center and the Harvard Film Archive reveal critics’ and scholars?? willingness to reconsider the once-maligned period...
...Harvard is willing to spend so much more per student than we pay in tuition. Every undergraduate is worth something to the students around him. The free rides that some highly-qualified students get at state schools is a signifier of their value to their peers. National merit scholars?? tuition is waived at some schools because they raise the value of the education that paying students receive. If the difference between per-student spending and tuition is a measure of peer effects, at Harvard—where this measure is over $40,000, according to U.S. News...
This difference of opinions is mirrored throughout the academy, dividing professors and administrators alike. On one side are those who think public intellectuals should be scholars??both inside and outside the academy—who speak to the public solely about issues that fall under their particular field of study. On the other side are those who believe that they have a wider responsibility to address all of the pressing social issues of our time. And even within both of those camps, there are differences of opinion over the amount of time and energy the public intellectual should...