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...Hereniko’s direction of the most mundane aspects of daily life. Viki is in many ways a typical Rotuman girl, learning traditional dances and helping her father harvest coconuts; however, she also studies English in a modern, Western-style school and dreams of earning a prestigious scholarship to leave Rotuma for the big island of Fiji...
...Scholarship is a process of open intellectual exchange. In such an interactive environment, disagreements should be discussed with both sides listening carefully to the other. We hope that the faculty will adopt this principle as it contemplates the future of Harvard...
...candidates for Faculty appointments, and two of them have accepted our invitation to join us this spring as R. B. Woodward Scholars, a type of mini-sabbatical that is especially accommodating to busy schedules. (To my knowledge, they are the first women to be invited to this prestigious scholarship...
...made mistakes during his tenure” and that “his personal interactions sometimes feel confrontational,” but nonetheless expresses confidence in Summers because of the belief “that his decisions are guided by a fundamental commitment to the ideals of scholarship and teaching that define this institution...
...variety of political views and differ on issues of international, domestic and Harvard policy. In particular, we fall on all sides of the recent controversy over Summers’ remarks on women in science. But a semester of engaging with Summers has shown us his commitment to teaching and scholarship. He adopted a provocative and challenging approach to difficult questions in the spirit of expanding the bounds of our knowledge. And this, above all, ought to be the primary goal of any academic institution...