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Patrick’s commitment to the poor, the disadvantaged, and minority groups comes from his belief that they should have the same opportunities that he enjoyed as a young man. He grew up poor on the south side of Chicago and, through intelligence and determination, won a scholarship to Milton Academy before attending Harvard. Since graduation from Harvard Law School, he has served the country in a presidential administration and fought for social justice across the country–from Coca-Cola’s boardroom to the halls of America’s courthouses. One of the great...
...extra bonus,” Cross said. “We went into worlds still aglow from our NCAA victory. It’s refreshing to see Harvard play well on not only a national level but an international level, since most top fencers go to scholarship schools...
When it comes to their research and scholarship, professors have, and should continue to have, complete freedom. But professors do not deserve this absolute autonomy when it comes to teaching. Burgard is naïve to think that faculty self-governance in the area of teaching is equivalent to faculty self-evaluation. It is hard to gauge the actual level of faculty self-evaluation at the College, be it faculty members’ evaluating their own courses or each others’. More importantly, there is a tremendous difference between a professor’s and a student?...
...students with a culture of service to others. Instead, it reeks of unabashed individualism…” (“Volunteering? What’s That?” comment, Oct. 23). But the Mission Statement ends with this exhortation: “Harvard expects that the scholarship and collegiality it fosters in its students will lead them in their later lives to advance knowledge, to promote understanding, and to serve society.” After the Mission Statement was adopted, I rewrote the ritual words presenting undergraduate degree candidates at Commencement to assure the President and Fellows...
...Faculty that the next president must be willing to address. The departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are marked by tribalist tendencies, hampering their willingness to collaborate with each other and with the University’s professional schools. Harvard’s research and scholarship add invaluably to the greater knowledge, skills, and decision-making of mankind, but in many cases individual departments and schools can accomplish more through interdisciplinary efforts. Already, we see some fruits of efforts to cross-pollinate the University. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the growing Broad Institute for genomics research...