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...program: that Hewitt "wanted to examine the English class system, by which society or the class into which you were born really determined the opportunities you had in life." (Apted, 22 at the time, might have demurred - he was a lower-middle-class kid who got a scholarship to read history and the law at Cambridge - but he doesn't say if he did.) "We wanted to get a good cross-section of English society... the idea being that out of the mouths of seven-year-old children we might learn some truths about English society: what they thought about...
...Courses such as “Hindutva” delve into contemporary political issues, but such courses are the exception. While the department should not abandon its current strengths (that is, ancient languages and ancient studies), it would be negligent for it to simply ignore the need for scholarship on contemporary South Asia. Similar deficiencies lie in the availability of grants, research, and study abroad opportunities—all of which many Harvard students seek, according to a 2005 survey conducted by the South Asian Studies Initiative, an advocacy group at Harvard which aims to increase the size and scope...
...Government is on the right track—good liberals that they are, they’ve managed to realize that the military can be used for good ends, like stopping genocide—but it is tiny. Most of the professors at FAS are averse to any scholarship on the military. There are fewer than five courses on the catalog devoted to any aspect of military tactics, intelligence, and the like...
Harvard has basically lost a previously-held pedestal to influence public policy at a crucial time in America. Military scholarship has now largely been outsourced to conservative think-tanks in Washington, which have shoddier standards and are also more likely to be belligerent. Harvard has a natural niche to fill here, and it must begin by incorporating military science research into FAS in a significant...
...After an incident in which Zambrano was blamed for stealing lunch, his guidance counselor reached out to him. Later on, the same high school counselor recommended Zambrano for a scholarship program called Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA). The program allowed Zambrano to visit college campuses, gave him SAT preparation, and encouraged him to apply early...