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...their rarity. She also said a rare book that has all of its pieces intact has one value, but once someone—as Smiley did—slices pages out of the book, it loses some of its value. And then there’s the loss to scholarship that results when a book is stolen and is therefore inaccessible to scholars—that cost, Brainard said, can be “immeasurable.” Houghton has changed its security process in the wake of the Smiley thefts, but Brainard would not go into specifics. According...
Harvard will also increase the amount of scholarship funds for childcare available to faculty members, post-doctorate fellows, and graduate students...
...native of Cambridge—in fact, he was born and raised in the affluent, lily-white suburb of Wellesley, Mass. And after high school, he left the Boston area entirely. First he attended the University of Rochester on a Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship. Then he served for more than four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, trekking as far as Malaysia and the Philippines...
...Gilligan III ’05 died last June when he fell out the window of an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Participants in the 4.2-mile race were invited to make contributions to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, which awards a $2,500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Gilligan’s alma mater, Haddon Township High School in New Jersey. The foundation will also annually award a fellowship in his honor of $2,500 for purposeful summer study or travel to a resident of Eliot, where Gilligan lived during his time...
...bully pulpit replaced our worry with fear. Soon after 9/11, Summers delivered a speech urging the University to be more patriotic and directing the Kennedy School to give its next public service award to a military official. Such a demand smacks of McCarthyism and threatens the indispensable principle of scholarship: that evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny must prevail over any test of group loyalty.Better publicized was Summers’ spat with world-renowned African-American philosopher Cornel R. West ’74, who, as a University Professor, occupied the most selective rank of tenured professorship. Summers, according to West...