Word: scholarshipped
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...Drew G. Faust to the presidency of Harvard, but for me, the most important feature of President-elect Faust is that she has spent her entire adult life as an active scholar. She is not a long-time administrator like Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was. Her scholarship was not mixed with public service or a Brahmin legal career. She is a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue, one-hundred-percent academic, who has spent her life creating knowledge and disseminating it through writing and teaching...
...history of Harvard’s presidents, only Cornelius C. Felton, Class of 1827, can really compete in his lifetime dedication to scholarship, and in the past century only James B. Conant ’14 comes close. I have nothing but admiration for the extraordinary achievements and diverse backgrounds of Harvard’s past presidents, but I also rejoice in the fact that by choosing Faust, the Corporation has affirmed the University’s core values of teaching and research...
...Southern thinkers had to fight to connect with each other, and they had to fight against a culture that didn’t always treat scholarship with respect. Yet Faust shows how the Southern circle built a network of ideas; an American Quarterly article from 1979 has a particularly elegant circular map of the connections between Southern intellectuals, connections that we at Harvard try to make. Connections that started in one area produced shared insights in totally different fields. The business of Harvard is to produce knowledge through the connection of scholars and students; Faust has spent her life thinking...
...having a physical scientist to oversee the growth of Allston, I am comforted in having a president who has spent her life studying the foibles of our own species. Even more importantly, I am delighted that we have a president whose entire life has been dedicated to scholarship. She is a scholarly paragon and we should cherish that fact...
...Kathleen McCartney, which led to last week’s meeting. The letter called Orfield’s departure and the recent departure of other professors studying civil rights and race “particularly devastating.”Students’ “academic preparation and future scholarship are at risk...if such issues of critical importance in our increasingly diverse nation are not sufficiently addressed by GSE faculty and curriculum,” the letter said.“One senior professor leaves and it leaves a big hole. So it’s now at this...