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...University president enters into the intellectual arena and debates the impact of free trade. It is remarkable that we have a University president who gives graduate students and young faculty members serious advice on their research. It is important that we have a president who seriously engages with the scholarship of every prospective faculty member. It is extraordinary that we have a president who relishes advising freshmen and changing the lives of undergraduates by teaching a freshmen seminar...
While many members of our community can teach Core courses and freshman seminars and attend workshops and critique papers, there is something particularly special about the president of Harvard being so involved in the process of scholarship. This involvement sends a clear message to our students and to the world that scholarship is an exciting vocation and that the world of ideas, which all of us love, is a joyful world that must be cherished and supported. The enthusiasm of our scholar-president for teaching and research sends an unmistakable signal to the world that scholarship is precious and that...
Montefiore's portrait of Stalin and his circle is a deeply researched and wonderfully readable accomplishment--scholarship as a kind of savage gossip, history as a grisly Barbara Walters special, its sensationalism redeemed by Montefiore's deep grounding in the facts. It is a brilliant stroke, in any case, to describe Stalin and his immense crimes, the blood of millions, with the sardonic contempt and tabloid brio to which Montefiore's scholarship entitles...
...younger generation of those years. Some of them were taken by Hitler, which they shouldn’t have been.”While Harvard hosted Putzi for the week, his attempt to leave a longer-lasting legacy was blocked. Months after the reunion, Conant rejected a $1,000 scholarship offer from Hanfstaengl, who hoped to endow a traveling fellowship to Germany for interested students...
...groups included the Alaska Club, Center for European Studies Undergraduate Board, Harvard College British Club, Harvard College Fed Challenge, Harvard College Mahjong Club, Harvard College Unitarian Universalists, Scholarship for Peace, Homeschoolers Anonymous, and Wisconsin Club...