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...answer is a qualified “yes.” Harvard is planning to make Allston a center for cutting-edge science, and Allston will likely become a profoundly important place for scholarship in other disciplines as well. Perhaps there’s not really more to be done than build as much housing and cultural facilities as possible, which Harvard seems to be making a good-faith effort to do. “It’s something that always need to be considered and calls for us to strike the appropriate balance between creating the future...
...were dreamers who fought tradition and inertia to keep Harvard evolving—from its roots as a small school for training clergymen into the preeminent institution of today. At each juncture, these great leaders sought to reinvent Harvard so that it could meet the challenges of education, research, scholarship, and public service in their respective eras.In today’s rapidly changing world, such progressive vision is more important than ever. Harvard’s president needs to ask the hard questions and push for answers, even if they are difficult or unconventional. He or she must centralize authority...
...magazine U.S. News & World Report, Kennedy School professor David R. Gergen called the Walt-Mearsheimer paper “an unfair attack.”In The Washington Post, Johns Hopkins University professor Eliot A. Cohen called it “a wretched piece of scholarship.” One of Mearsheimer’s colleagues at Chicago, assistant professor of political science Daniel W. Drezner, called it “piss-poor, monocausal social science.” And the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America issued a statement claiming that “a student...
...applied and was given a scholarship to a private Catholic school in the third grade, and soon hit the ground running. She quickly overcame the English barrier, learning much of the language by watching old sitcoms, including “The Cosby Show” and “Small Wonder.” By the end of the third grade, she was nearly fluent...
...pick up the trophies.” Harvard’s medal haul continued through New York and didn’t come to a complete stop until March 18 in Houston. It was there that the Crimson plowed through nine-time national champion Penn State and other scholarship programs on the way to the NCAA Championship, the fourth in the history of the Harvard Athletic Program and the Crimson’s first national team fencing title of any kind in 72 years.In Houston, as in New York, Harvard’s rambunctious athletes—part fencers, part...